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Submission + - 75% of enterprises have suffered $2M+ cyber attack (daniweb.com)

Submitted by coomaria
coomaria writes: OK, even allowing for the fact this comes from a newly published study from a security company that's still one heck of a statistic. The fact that it's Symantec, and so has access to perhaps more enterprises than most, makes it a double-heck with knobs on. Or how about this one for size: "every enterprise, yes 100 percent, experienced cyber losses in 2009"
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Submission + - HoneyGrid reveals 95% of UGC is crap (daniweb.com)

Submitted by coomaria
coomaria writes: The HoneyGrid scans 40 million websites every hour so it was bound to find something interesting. What it found was a staggering 95% of User Generated Content is either malicious in nature or spam.
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Submission + - Bouncing Autonomous Intelligent Botnets (daniweb.com)

Submitted by coomaria
coomaria writes: Thought that 2009 was the year that botnets died, well think again, it was actually the year they bounced back. Compromised computers were responsible for distributing 83.4% of the 107 billion spam messages sent around the world, every single day this year — and it's going to get worse if intelligent and autonomous botnets arrive in 2010 as predicted here.

Submission + - Lawyer demands jury stops Googling (itwire.com) 1

Submitted by coomaria
coomaria writes: So lawyers want to get juries to sign, on threat of prison, that they won't Google the case they are hearing. Apparently it could influence their decision, and only lawyers are allowed to do that, right?

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