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Re: Education sector most affected by malware


From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 09:47:46 -0400

On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:16:17 EDT, "DiGrazia, Mick A" said:
Education owns 44% of malware infections by industry

http://www.scmagazineus.com/education-sector-most-affected-by-malware/article/180337/?utm_source=3Dfeedburner&utm_medium=3Dfeed&utm_campaign=3DFeed%3A+SCMagazineHome+%28SC+Magazine%29

From the fine article:

"Based on the total number of malware samples collected in 2009, Trend Micro
estimates that a new piece of malicious software is created approximately every
1.5 seconds. In addition, estimates place the number of unique new malware
samples introduced every day at more than 600,000."

600K samples had better be including variants of polymorphic code and/or
machine-generated variants.  Or we're screwed.

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