Symantec Corp. lately published its November 2011 Symantec Intelligence Report whose outcomes disclose that the overall targeted assaults on a daily basis show a four-time growth since January 2011. In terms of mean targeted assaults, a total of 94 were caught daily in November 2011 compared to 25 during January 2011.
Delving further, the report says that during November 2011, one e-mail within a total 255 messages carried malware; however, merely one e-mail within 8,300 was an extremely targeted. As per Symantec, in general 1 in a total 2m e-mails were related to a targeted assault.
Moreover, the security company's report states that considering 48bn e-mails did the rounds daily, any extremely targeted assault similar to the above kind is responsible for an extremely tiny rate of total e-mail; however, that isn't surely not so less as it was at 2010-end. SCMagazineUK.com published this on December 6, 2011.
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