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Cisco releases 2008 Annual Security Report
December 17th, 2008
Cisco just released their annual security report for 2008.
A few key report findings include:
- Spam accounts for nearly 200 billion messages each day, which is approximately 90 percent of email sent worldwide
- The overall number of disclosed vulnerabilities grew by 11.5 percent over 2007
- Vulnerabilities in virtualization products tripled to 103 in 2008 from 35 in 2007, as more organizations embraced virtualization technologies to increase cost-efficiency and productivity
- Over the course of 2008, Cisco saw a 90 percent growth rate in threats originating from legitimate domains; nearly double what the company saw in 2007
- Spam due to email reputation hijacking from the top three webmail providers accounted for just under 1 percent of all spam worldwide, but constituted 7.6 percent of all these providers’ mail
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