Symantec in its “Internet Security Threat” 2009 report has ranked India 5th in malicious activity, i.e. a climb of six places. India is the highest spam originating country in the world, contributing 4 per cent to the worldwide spam volumes, while the country ranks first in the Asian region. On the basis of web-based attacks,India has gone up from the rank of 13 in 2008 to rank 3 in 2009, next to US and Brazil. Of the phishing URLs identified in India, 91 per cent targeted the financial services sector last year.
source:http://www.cyberlawtimes.com/2010/04/28/symantec-india-ranks-5th-world-cyber-crime/
Symantec is one of the most powerful software company that works on cyber security seriously.Recently the experts in this company are working on decoding Stuxnet and it is amazing to know they simulated mechanism of this malware when this worm is going to take control of PLCs
ReplyDelete( controling an industrial engine) according to the BBC persian tv report that was shown yesterday