{"id":14661,"date":"2012-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soundpr.it\/post_news\/sophos-presenta-il-nuovo-rapporto-2012-sulla-sicurezza-informatica\/"},"modified":"2012-01-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T23:00:00","slug":"sophos-presenta-il-nuovo-rapporto-2012-sulla-sicurezza-informatica","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.soundpr.it\/en\/news\/sophos-presenta-il-nuovo-rapporto-2012-sulla-sicurezza-informatica\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos Security Threat Report Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">IT security and data protection company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/\">Sophos<\/a> today unveiled its latest Security Threat Report2012, a detailed assessment of the threat landscape\u2014from Hacktivism and online threats to mobile malware, cloud computing and social network security, as well as IT security trends for this coming year. The full, ungated report is available for download from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/security-news-trends\/reports\/security-threat-report.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sophos website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Sophos poll, conducted online at the end of 2011, surveyed more than 4,300 global respondents about today\u2019s biggest threats on the Internet. Key findings from the research include:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>61 percent feel that users not doing enough to protect themselves is the biggest threat on the Internet<\/li>\n<li>Nearly 20 percent believe social networking scams are the top threat<\/li>\n<li>67 percent think that malware is on the rise compared to in 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Year in Review: Under Attack<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2011 was characterized by a rise in cybercrime. The availability of commercial tools designed by cybercriminals for cybercriminals made mass generation of new malicious code campaigns and exploits trivial and scalable; the net result was significant growth in the volume of malware and infections. Cybercriminals diversified their targets to include new platforms, as business use of mobile devices accelerated. Politically motivated \u201chacktivist\u201d groups took the media spotlight, even as the more common threats to cyber security grew.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Hype over Hacktivism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2011, the emergence of LulzSec and Anonymous marked a shift from hacking for financial gain to hacking as a form of protest. Hacktivists sowed chaos by leaking documents and attacking websites of high-profile organizations and even defense contractors. LulzSec dominated headlines in the first half of the year with attacks on Sony, PBS, the U.S. Senate, the CIA, FBI affiliate InfraGard and others, and then disbanded after 50 days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Risky Business<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Increasingly, corporate users weren\u2019t just at home or at work, but somewhere else on the \u201ceverywhere network.\u201d And the consumerization of IT, sometimes called \u201cbring your own device\u201d or BYOD, became one of the newer causes of data vulnerability. Employees accessed sensitive corporate information from their home computers, smartphones and tablets. Moreover, corporate-issued mobile devices increased risk, as did the rise of cloud services and the use of social media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Sophos online poll, which asked users if their company allows personal laptops, desktops or phones for work, nearly 50 percent of respondents said yes. Another 10 percent who said no preferred otherwise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Changing Web Threats and Drive-by Downloads<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cybercriminals constantly launched attacks designed to penetrate digital defenses and steal sensitive data. And almost no online portal proved immune from threat or harm. SophosLabs identifies an average of 30,000 newly-infected web pages each day. More than 80 percent of these web pages are on innocent web servers, which have been hacked by cybercriminals to make them part of the problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Additionally, 85 percent of all malware, including viruses, worms, spyware, adware and Trojans, comes from the web, according to the Ponemon Institute. Today, drive-by downloads have become the top web threat, and in 2011, one crimeware kit, known as \u201cBlackhole,\u201d rose to the number one on that list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Sophos online poll, users were asked about the prevalence of malware compared to 2010; 67 percent of respondents felt it was on the rise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>OS Oh My! And the Emergence of Mac Malware<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Windows may be the most attacked OS, but the primary vectors for hacking Windows have been through PDF or Flash.13 Despite Microsoft\u2019s regular updates to patch Windows OS vulnerabilities, the content delivery systems remained the largest vulnerability on any OS. In 2011, the emergence of malware for the Mac upstaged Windows malware. There&#8217;s no doubt that the Windows malware problem is much larger than the Mac threat, but the events of 2011 show Mac users that the malware threat is genuine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Top Trends<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are many factors that will impact the IT security landscape this year and into the future. These include new attacks using social media platforms and integrated apps, more targeted attacks on non-Windows platforms, and mobile payment technologies under threat, among others, which are highlighted within the report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs cybercriminals expand their focus, organizations are challenged to keep their security capabilities from backsliding as they adopt new technologies,\u201d said Mark Harris, vice president of SophosLabs, Sophos. \u201cAnd as we continue to access information in different ways, from different devices in different locations, security tools must be able to \u2018protect everywhere\u2019\u2014from desktops to mobile and smart devices and the cloud. But more importantly and oft-disregarded, cybercriminals will continue to stalk the easiest prey\u2014 security basics like patching and password management will remain a significant challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The full Security Threat Report 2012 contains much more information and statistics on cybercrime in 2011, as well as top tips and predictions for emerging trends. The report can be downloaded free of charge from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/security-news-trends\/reports\/security-threat-report.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sophos website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":14662,"template":"","news_categories":[147],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sophos presenta il nuovo Rapporto 2012 sulla Sicurezza InformaticaSophos Security Threat Report Available - soundPR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.soundpr.it\/news\/sophos-presenta-il-nuovo-rapporto-2012-sulla-sicurezza-informatica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sophos presenta il nuovo Rapporto 2012 sulla Sicurezza InformaticaSophos Security Threat Report Available - soundPR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"IT security and data protection company Sophos today unveiled its latest Security Threat Report2012, a detailed assessment of the threat landscape\u2014from Hacktivism and online threats to mobile malware, cloud computing and social network security, as well as IT security trends for this coming year. 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