Surfing the Internet last year was a dangerous proposition. On average, 200 samples of malicious software were collected every minute by McAfee Labs, the company reported Monday in its threat report for the Q4 2013. All kinds of Internet nastiness increased last year — from ransomware and suspicious URLs to bogus digital certificates, master boot record attacks, and poisoned mobile apps, the firm said. It was also the year that — thanks to Target — the malware problem was brought home to many civilians in the war against cybercrime.
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2013: A Perilous Year on the Internet
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. March 11, 2014 03:45 PMSurfing the Internet last year was a dangerous proposition. On average, 200 samples of malicious software were collected every minute by McAfee Labs, the company reported Monday in its threat report for the Q4 2013. All kinds of Internet nastiness increased last year — from ransomware and suspicious URLs to bogus digital certificates, master boot record attacks, and poisoned mobile apps, the firm said. It was also the year that — thanks to Target — the malware problem was brought home to many civilians in the war against cybercrime.