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Sophos Security Threat Report Q1 2008

Overview Sophos' new Security Threat Report, which looks at worldwide cybercrime during the first quarter of 2008, show a dramatic increase in web-based threats compared to 2007 - the first three months of 2008 showed Sophos finding and blocking a new infected webpage every five seconds, compared with one every 14 seconds last year. Download the report to see the top ten countries hosting Web-based malware in Q1 2008 as well as all of the other latest security threat findings.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Sophos	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Security, Security Standards, Security Management, Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing, Spyware

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