Articles Tagged with ''malware''

According to Symantec’s Monthly Threat report, the number of web attacks almost doubled in April of this year alone, up from 584,000 per day to 1,038,000 per day.

Cybercrime is quickly shifting to the mobile space as mobile device malware infections reached an all-time high in 2016.

An analysis by Skycure of the patch updates among the five leading wireless carriers in the United States found that 71 percent of mobile devices still run on security patches more than two months old.

Last year, cybercriminals attacked the California-based Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, encrypting files crucial in running the hospital’s operating systems and demanding a ransom to restore them to working order.

Remember Stuxnet? In 2010, an ambitious covert operation was discovered and exposed: in Iran, a computer virus was causing hardware used to enrich uranium gas to fail.

Houston leads the nation in the number of computer and mobile devices infected with malware.

A new report says that some form of known malware is downloaded every 81 seconds in an enterprise.