Targeted attacks on organizations and Web-born infections like the recent Flashback outbreak on Macintosh computers will continue to poison the security landscape in 2012, according to John Harrison, Symantec group product manager for endpoint threat protection and security technology and response. Targeted attacks — attacks aimed at specific individuals within an organization — were a “rising tide” last year, averaging 94 a day by November, according to Symantec’s annual Internet Security Threat Report for 2011, released last week. And that will continue in 2012, Harrison said.
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The Malicious Hacker's Ever-Sharper Eye
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. May 7, 2012 06:00 AMTargeted attacks on organizations and Web-born infections like the recent Flashback outbreak on Macintosh computers will continue to poison the security landscape in 2012, according to John Harrison, Symantec group product manager for endpoint threat protection and security technology and response. Targeted attacks — attacks aimed at specific individuals within an organization — were a “rising tide” last year, averaging 94 a day by November, according to Symantec’s annual Internet Security Threat Report for 2011, released last week. And that will continue in 2012, Harrison said.