[governance] Symantec Report #cyber security

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Thank you Charity for taking the time to share your notes with us. :)

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Charity Gamboa <charityg at diplomacy.edu>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I attended a Symantec Security workshop/lecture at Texas Tech University
> last Thursday.  The following report was presented by Nivk L. Kael, Senior
> Principal Security Strategist. Here are a few things I was able to note
> down:
>
> **Mr. Kael started by saying that there is a large number of hacking in
> universities globally.  The main reason for this is selling everyone's
> information (Identity Theft). It might be old news but the reason behind it
> is money.
>
> **There were 5.5 billion attacks in 2011 compared to 3 billion attacks in
> 2010.
>
> **Number in spamming dropped to 6.2 million in 2011 compared to 2010's 4.2
> million - but that's just to say that anybody shouldn't be fooled by that
> number.
>
> **There were 403 million malware in 2011 compared to 2010's 28.6 million.
>
> **There were 55,294 malicious domains in 2011 versus 42,296 in 2010.
>
> **There were 315 million MOBILE vulnerabilities in 2011 versus 163 million
> in 2010.
>
> **It was noted that the US and China topped first and second,
> respectively, on malicious activity by source overall.
>
> **The following sites were cosnidered vulnerable to a lot of malicious
> attacks:
>     1. religious/ideologies
>     2. hosting/personal sites
>     3. pornography
>     4. entertainment/music
>     5. economy
>     6. technology/computer/Internet
>     7. travel
>     8. sports
>     9. automobile
>    10. shopping
>
> **Malware will continue to rise because cybercriminals are taking
> advantage of social media. Social media is viral in nature and people are
> less suspicious of content from friends.
>
> **QR codes are being used as an attack tool aka attack tagging - usually
> deliver trojans and other malware. Read more about the Jester hacker.
>
> **Symantec did a study called "Project Honey Stick" where they left
> iphones intentionally in several cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco and
> Washington D.C. Symantec tracked the phone's activities. They found out
> that only 50% tried or even attempted to return; and 96% attempted personal
> and app access.
>
> **Be careful of the wifi pineapple.
>
> **It took Symantec 18 seconds to hack an Android phone.
>
>
> Have a great weekend!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Charity Gamboa-Embley
>
>
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