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The Online Shadow Economy: A Billion Dollar Market For Malware Authors

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Overview In an online black market worth more than $105 billion, malware authors can produce new, unique threats targeting businesses and employees every 45 seconds.

This free white paper examines the growth of this online shadow economy. It explores the high level of sophistication with which it operates, the continuous improvement of its techniques and looks at what the future holds for Internet crime.

Learn about the entrepreneurs of Internet crime and how to keep your business and employees safe.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	MessageLabs	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Anti-Hacking, Security Management, Best Practices, Spyware, Cyber Security

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