October 01, 2004 — CSO — Unique phishing," attacks reported in June: 1,422
Increase in phishing attacks from December to June: 1,126%
Estimated number of people who think they got phishing e-mails in the past year: 57 million
Recipients who opened a phishing e-mail: 19%
Recipients who divulge personal or financial information to phishers: 3% to 5%
People who are duped into acting on a phishing e-mail that was identified as probably fraudulent: 1 in 10
Sources: Anti-Phishing Working Group, Gartner, MailFrontier
Read more about data protection in CSOonline's Data Protection section.
The challenge of true data protection spans databases, internal and external networks, physical and offsite storage, business partners and more. These resources offer expert perspective from the basics through specific key elements of data protection strategies.
Network security basics
Protection, detection, and reaction—those are the three underlying principles your security program must embody
Computer incident detection, response, forensics
Richard Bejtlich shows how to measure and improve the maturity of your incident response
A few good IT security metrics
Stop counting blocked malware attachments and measure things that can contribute to meaningful change
5 key cloud security trends
Cloud security is evolving rapidly—stay on top of it
IT risk assessment frameworks
How to do end-to-end encryption
How to compare and use enterprise antivirus
Also find sample data protection policies in CSO's tools, templates and policies library
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Microsoft published its Patch Tuesday Preview for February of 2012 a few minutes ago. IT admins can expect nine bulletins to address 21 security vulnerabilities.
It looks like four bulletins will be rated critical while the rest are designated as important.
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