[governance] Symantec Report #cyber security

[Charity Gamboa]

No problem Sala.

Just a correction: **Number in spamming dropped 4.2 million in 2011
compared to 2010's 6.2 million .."

Charity

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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