The high activity also encourages the use skyrocketing information technology that increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Thus, the main highlight in this report include a dramatic increase both in frequency and sophistication of attacks targeted at the enterprise environment, continued growth of social networking sites as a place to spread the attack, and attackers change tactics infection, which is increasingly targeting vulnerabilities in Java in order to break into traditional computer systems.
“The nature of the threat has been increasingly broad range of targeting individual account at a bank until the target information and physical infrastructure of a country,” says Raymond Goh, Regional Technical Director of Systems Engineering, Symantec. “The scale of these attacks are very diverse, ranging from multinational companies listed on the stock and government agencies to small-scale firms and individual computer users.” Raymond added.
Targeted attacks such as Hydraq and Stuxnet lead to increased threats in an enterprise environment in 2010. To increase the chances for successful entry into the enterprise without being detected, the more targeted attacks are zero-day exploit vulnerabilities to get into computer systems
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