As 2006 winds to a close, the basic trends in the data security world and its counterpart in the malware community seem, for the time being, relatively predictable.
Although the number of known viruses kept growing at a steady pace, year 2006 witnessed a remarkable step down in the volume of visible attacks by worms, viruses and other malware. At the same time, however, targeted attacks using backdoors, booby trapped document files and rootkits became increasingly commonplace. Also spam reached new record-breaking heights.
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Dec 4, 2006, 09:10 PM
