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
- The CISO's Survival Guide to Securing Data
- Data Privacy and Protection in Production Environments: New Research from Ponemon Institute
- FireEye Advanced Threat Protection KnowledgeVault
- Five Tips to Consider in a Data Security Strategy for Smartphones and Tablets
- Moving Your Email to the Trusted Cloud
- Comprehensive Server Protection
- Teenage hackers could be our last, best hope
I got an email yesterday asking if teenage hacking is on the rise. At first I balked. Teenage hackers have always been in abundance, so the question seemed stupid to me. Then I remembered something about teens that the SANS Institute's Alan Paller mentioned at a conference last week. Let's start with that press release, which framed the scenario this way: - Busted: When security tools fail
- Hey Linux, Mac and Windows users: It's ALL vulnerable
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