Sophos has revealed the top 10 traditional pitfalls of information every month stems from data collected by the software company engaged in the security field. In total in May 1538 new threats were identified, most of which are represented by trojan (85.1%) and viruses (12.3%). In all identified threats from the security software group now total 122,634.
introducing the top10, Sophos points out that the trend is that 2006 represents "the percentage of virus-infected email has dropped considerably from last year. Instead of mass mailing attacks, in fact, hackers prefer to use the Trojan. While in May 2005 had an infected email out of 38 in May 2006, a mail out of 141. "
The ranking of the ten most common threats, does not change substantially compared to previous months, headed once again Netsky (in the version P), followed by Zafi-B-D and Nyxem. Mytob involved in its various versions positions 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th and 10th of the league. There is also a parallel ranking of the 10 most common hoax, another stinking problem that lurks in the mountain of unwanted mail that populate the mailboxes around the world:
1. Olympic Torch
2. Hotmail hoax
3. Justice for Jamie
4. Bonsai Kitten
5. Budweiser frogs screensaver
6. Meninas by Playboy
7. MSN is closing down
8. Bill Gates Fortune
9. MySpace J_Neutron07 virus
10. WTC Survivor
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