Re: Education sector most affected by malware

[Tom Talley <Thomas.Talley () MICROSOFT COM>]

It is interesting to note that the months of February and March show the most infections for education. 

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From: Tom Talley 
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 2:00 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: RE: [SECURITY] Education sector most affected by malware

The report can be found at:

http://us.trendmicro.com/imperia/md/content/us/trendwatch/researchandanalysis/tm101hthreat_report.pdf



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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Harvard 
Townsend
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 12:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Education sector most affected by malware

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_campai
> > gn=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.