The security division of IBM called X-Force that released its report on 2010 Trend and Risk observes that although there was a drop in phishing assaults to one-fourth their earlier numbers, personalized assaults, technically called "spear phishing," grew enormously. ComputerWorld published this in news on March 31, 2011.
States Tom Cross, Threat Intelligence Manager at X-Force, it's apparent that with phishing assaults falling in general, the focus now is on increasingly lucrative techniques of assaults. Obviously, the assaults are more qualitatively focused instead of quantitatively. ComputerWorld published this.
Further according to the report, almost 8,000 fresh web-based security flaws came to be noticed during 2010, an increase of 27% since 2009. This figure suggests that the threat landscape has expanded wherein advanced assaults are being executed on more-and-more complicated computing scenarios.
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