The Threat Landscape - Factoids

Comment: From Threat Landscape presentation today

• 71% percent of malicious Web sites are actually legitimate sites that have been compromised by attackers
  
• In the 2nd half of 2009, there was a 225% growth in malicious Web sites over 2008
  
• By the end of 2009, research reveals that spam accounts for 96% of all business email–equating to only 1 in every 298 emails being legitimate
  
• 81% of emails during the 2nd half of 2009 contained a malicious link
  
• Symantec created 2,895,802 new malicious code signatures in 2009 (71% increase over 2008, 51% of all malicious code signatures ever created)
  
• Symantec documented 4,501 vulnerabilities in 2009 –only 47% of which could be corrected through vendor patches
  
• The estimated “survival” time of an internet-connected computer running Windows without security is under 6 minutes
  

Comment: How about that final point!