According to DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), with cyber-warfare posing more-and-more danger, the agency plans to put in more funds into cyber-research, about the double of the previous budget during the upcoming period of 5-years, published TG Daily dated November 8, 2011.
Actually, as cyber-assaults increased lately, the above decision became imperative. Security researchers state that it's much easier and faster for creating the malware compared to security software that works well.
During the last 20-year period as well as for approximately 9,000 incidences of bots, exploits, worms and viruses, the analysis by DARPA showed an almost same mean of 125 malware code-structures.
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