[pchelpers] News:Cyberattacks Surge 30 Percent Over Last 4 Months, IBM Says

By Matthew Harwood
12/05/2008 -  

There has been a "startling" surge of security events online over the
past four months, according to IBM's X-Force, an elite team of
IT security experts.

X-Force experts discovered two disconcerting developments:

First, they identified a 30 percent increase in network and web-based
security events over the last 120 days, with the total number rising
from 1.8 billion to more than 2.5 billion worldwide per day, according
to data pulled from its managed security services client base of
approximately 3700 clients worldwide. Second, IBM detected a 40 percent
increase within the last 120 days in its clients' access of IBM virtual
security operations centres. IBM's managed security services clients -
businesses and governments around the world - can use the virtual
operations centres (VSOC's) to monitor and verify network and web-based
attacks. A significant portion of the increase came from clients that
had not previously logged in to the security operations centres in more
than six months.

More here:
http://securitymanagement.com/news/cyberattacks-surge-30-percent-over-last-4-months-ibm-says-004964
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