Virus & malware attacks increasingly malignant

Viruses and malware increasingly threatening. The number of attacks even more raged from year to year. What the situation today?

From the analysis of Kaspersky Lab last until September 2011, found there are 2 billion that successfully blocked an attack on the corporate network every month.

Then, there are about two thousand applications are vulnerable infiltrated detected viruses and malware. Also mentioned, there are more than 70 thousand malicious programs that appear every day, including 80% of spam emails trying to enter through the office.

From a network security company's report also found that the presence of malicious programs (malicious) getting craze from year to year.

In 2007, there were at least 5 new malicious program that comes every 2 minutes. The amount is more extreme in 2010, where at least there is a new malicious programs are present every 2 seconds.

The distance was estimated to accelerating its presence in 2011, where a new malicious programs are present every 1.2 seconds.
"The threat was clearly disrupt the corporate sector," said Gun Suk Ling, Kaspersky Lab's Corporate Sales Director for Asia Pacific, at the Hotel Le Meridien, Jakarta, Wednesday (23/11/2011).

From the analysis, Kaspersky, an estimated 96% of firms face cyber threats from the outside, and 45% of companies have increased the number of threats, as well as 46% of companies lose critical data due to malware attacks.

Varied sources of his own attacks. At least 60% of companies believe the attack was coming from its own employees who opened the gap a threat through social networking media, and the other 33% of mobile devices like smartphones and tablet PCs.

"Then there are about 29% of companies are afraid of cloud computing and regard it as a threat. Then, another 21% think the virus as a threat to the company's future, "he continued.

As a result of that concern, the company was trying to do the protection in various ways. Approximately 84% to close access social media, 21% use antivirus, firewall, and so on to block.

"While 23% of companies there is also a resignation and not take any action. This is alarming, "said Suk Ling.