Note: this blog is a mirror of my HP Labs Blog, on the same topic, accessible at: http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Research-on-Security-and/bg-p/163

Monday, November 2, 2009

Security Trends Report by Microsoft and McAfee: Phishing Scams Relying More Heavily on Worms and Trojans

Based on a recent security trends report by Microsoft and MAfee, it looks like that social networks have been targeted with phishing scams and relying more heavily on worms and Trojans to attack computers. Rogue security software also remains a big issue.

Some related articles on this topic can also be found here and here.

--- Posted by Marco Casassa Mont (here and here) ---

--- NOTE: my original HP blog can be found here ---

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