Week of events that gave impact to various sectors

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» 26 April 2010

Week of events that gave impact to various sectors

Based on this week’s PricewaterhouseCoopers broadcast, there were about two-thirds of corporations that found out that some unknown online criminals have actually tried gaining access into their systems during the previous year. And, looking at the past records, there is a two-fold increase today compared to that of the last two years.

According to the consultancy, this rise in the number of suspected hacking incidents are charged against the utilization of cloud computing. Another reason for this is the rampant use of social networks in their businesses.

A boost in quantity is truly alarming

As seen in the Internet Security Threat report, the IT information released by Symantec yearly, there were approximately 240 million malicious software creeping around within the online community since a year ago. This is equivalent to a hundred percent increase annually. Sian John, solutions architect of Symantec, added that there is one computer system affected with botnet is actually discovered every 4.6 seconds around the world.

Not all possess the luck in business

This week turned out to be dreadful for NHS when Symantec learned that about 1,100 of the company’s computers were infected with a botnet designed for data-stealing. According to the popular security agency, their team was constantly watching the two FTP networks that are linked with Qakbot botnet. During their supervision, they discovered that it uploaded roughly 4 gigabytes of confidential data within the two weeks that have passed.

During this week, it was confirmed that the attacks made against Google this year is truly worse than what it appears to be. As written by The New York Times, the online criminals had the chance to get a hold of the Gaia password system of the web giant, Google.

As it appears, the Gaia password system is considered to be one of the Google’s greatest treasures. It has the key to gaining entry into various log-in accounts at Google, which involve the individual e-mails and also the business applications of the firm.

And to sum it up, Veracode, the well-known application security firm just distributed their recently-invented device that gives the consumers a comparative view of the level of security between their very own software and those of the others around the world.

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