[governance] Symantec Report #cyber security

[Milton L Mueller]

Remember that estimates (and they are _estimates_) of the "growth" of such things as "the number of attacks" or "malicious domains" needs to take into account the growth of the number of Internet users and growth in the number of devices connected to the internet.

The fact that US and China top the list of malicious activity, probably has something to do with the fact that China and the US are #1 and #2 in the number of Internet users.


From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Charity Gamboa
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 6:22 PM
To: Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
Cc: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Symantec Report #cyber security

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<mailto: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<mailto: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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