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increase during the 13 months ended
February 2018. While spam is today less
of a problem than it was several years
ago, the one-year period that ended
in March 2018 saw an overall increase
in the volume of spam traversing the
Internet, with enormous spikes occurring
in early 2018.
• Security teams must deal with all of
these issues, in addition to the everyday
problems of rootkits, bootkits, adware,
overwriting viruses, bots, software bugs,
keyloggers, password-stealing Trojans,
backdoors, and dumb user mistakes.
What concerns decision makers?
What types of security threats could
compromise an organisation’s data assets
and, in some cases, even put it out of
business? We discovered a wide range of
security incidents that have occurred to survey
respondents’ organisations over the past year,
most notably successful phishing attacks that
infected one or more systems with malware
(28 % of organisations), targeted email
attacks from a compromised account that
had the same result (25 %) and the loss of
sensitive or confidential information that was
successfully leaked through email (25 %). n
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