Internet Security Sucks
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Security on
Symantec has published a new report into various aspects of Internet security, and pretty unsurprisingly tells us what we already know: things are getting worse. The 10th Symantec Internet Security Threat Report looks at threat activity that took place between January 1st and June 30th this year and its key findings (complete with my patented Homer rating in italics) are:
Everyone connected to the Internet, whether you do so for email, online banking, IM, is at risk without
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