dbarrow
05-21-2006, 11:22 AM
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/50586.html
During the last 12 months, nearly 20 percent of organizations have had employees launch a hacking tool or a keylogger within their network, according to new research released by Websense this week. That figure increased from 2005, when only 12 percent were impacted. ...
...About a year or so ago, we saw that there was a diversity of attacks. Then we started to see automation of these attacks that grew in scale and scope," Ken Dunham, senior engineer at threat intelligence firm iDefense Latest News about iDefense, told TechNewsWorld. ...
...The Websense survey also highlighted a new threat on the horizon -- bots. A "bot" is software that can be unknowingly installed on an end-user's PC that communicates with a command and control center. ...
During the last 12 months, nearly 20 percent of organizations have had employees launch a hacking tool or a keylogger within their network, according to new research released by Websense this week. That figure increased from 2005, when only 12 percent were impacted. ...
...About a year or so ago, we saw that there was a diversity of attacks. Then we started to see automation of these attacks that grew in scale and scope," Ken Dunham, senior engineer at threat intelligence firm iDefense Latest News about iDefense, told TechNewsWorld. ...
...The Websense survey also highlighted a new threat on the horizon -- bots. A "bot" is software that can be unknowingly installed on an end-user's PC that communicates with a command and control center. ...