Although overall incidents of cyber condemnation decreased during 2010 against the previous year, still cyber attacks pertained towards the federal government showed an upsurge, as per a new report from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), reported by InformationWeek on March 23, 2011.
39% of the overall incidents were directed from the Federal government. However, spiteful code via multiple means including phishing and logic bomb persists to be the most commonly used attack approach as mentioned in the annual report from the OMB.
Even, the report to the Congress unveiled phishing to be one of the major causes for over half of the 107,439 cyber incidents determined by the Computer Emergency Readiness Team in the US for FY2010 from various teams including commercial enterprises, state, and local governments, American citizens, federal, and foreign CERT teams.
Phishing remained one of the topmost endemics inflicting the federal networks, even though the year over year numbers were somewhat less. The federal reported 52.7% of the total number of incidents accounting to 56,579 phishing attacks in 2010, against 64.5% in 2009 accounting for a 70,132 phishing attacks.
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