business networks safe? fat chance :(

[davidh]

Webroot Study Finds 43% of Firms Hit with Malware
By Brian Prince
March 28, 2007

A new report by Webroot Software has found that more than 40 percent of companies surveyed had been hit with malware that disrupted their business.

... 4.2 million of 250 million URLs around the world harbor malware. Almost 3 million of those malicious sites were discovered in 2006 alone, ...

... 26 percent of the more than 600 enterprises surveyed reported that confidential information had been compromised as a result of spyware.

... "Despite the growth and severity of malware, over 60 percent of businesses don't have a security plan. ... " ...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2108963,00.asp

DH

P.S.
My security plan: mixed metaphor -- close the barn door after the crown jewels are lost

This is a corollary of: set up a backup plan after the whole hard disk has been lost

Call the psychic hotline for additional advice, or if they are unavailable contact Russian, Chinese, and Jihadist cyber warriors