Re: Education sector most affected by malware

[Harvard Townsend <harv () KSU EDU>]

FYI - there's a typo in the SC magazine article. The original Trend 
report says:

"... recent estimates place the number of unique new malware samples 
introduced in a single day at greater than 60,000 unique samples."

Even though they don't quote a source, 60,000, not 600,000, is more in 
line with one every 1.5 seconds and considerably more believable. The 
Trend report also says "TrendLabs now sees in the region of 250,000 
samples each day," but doesn't indicate how many of those are unique 
malware instances.
--
Harvard

Harvard Townsend
Chief Information Security Officer
Kansas State University
Email: harv () ksu edu,  Voice: 785-532-2985

On 10/6/2010 8:47 AM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> 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.