iT News: Computer threats becoming more sophisticated

The scale and sophistication of IT security threats increased at an unprecedented rate during 2008, according to a series of end-of-year research studies published last week.

By Computing staff
11 December 2008

Anti-virus vendor Kaspersky Lab said that 15 million new forms of malware will have been detected by the end of this year - up from just two million in 2007.

IBM said data from its 3,700 managed security services customers worldwide showed that the number of security events rose from 1.8 billion to 2.5 billion per day over the past four months alone.

And security firm F-Secure said the level of malware detections trebled over the year to equal the total amount accumulated over the previous 21 years.

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