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Phishing attacks fell by 45% in August

While phishing was down, financial and online shopping sites received the most phishing scams, culminating in 29.3% of all phishing attacks. During the same time non-English phishing attacks were on the rise.

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Porn spam on social networking sites overtaking porn email

E-mail porn spam has been decreasing as such spammers move towards the already “trust-infused” social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. The current estimate is 15% of Twitter tweets are porn spam, 10% of MySpace’s traffic are porn spam with 7% filtering through Facebook.

Such spam may lead users to sex-based sites where at least half of which serve up malware. Others contain links that make the connection to download malware. Such malware can be activated at the point of infection, wait for instructions to activate at a later date or hide until activated by a set of key words.

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EU firms wary of China over IP insecurity

While improvements towards protection are improving, EU companies are wary of conducting business with China for fear of intellectual property not being protected.

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Majority of Users Have Considered Tossing Signature-Based Products, Study Says

With the amount of malware skyrocketing, many are viewing traditional anti-malware tools as inefficient. Only 20% of those surveyed were confident in the capability of the anti-malware technology used.  58% have considered scrapping the traditional products, with 8% actually doing so.  Around half of the those surveyed keep the technology to meet compliance requirements or corporate guidelines.

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P2P pushes IPv6 surge

A recent study has shown that with the adoption of IPv6 by BitTorrent, IPv6 traffic levels increased 15-fold, or from 0.002% of all Internet traffic to 0.03%.

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Gov 2.0: Ten Companies Bring Open Identity To Government

In a move to make government sites more transparent by making interaction easier, whether with blogs or other social networking tools, 10 companies will act as digital identity providers for supporting OpenID and Information Card technologies on government websites. The move will allow users to use their trusted, digital identity among OpenID-enabled sites.

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