Cisco Says Hackers Getting Smarter: Who Would've Thought?
Cisco -- or, for the purpose of this story, Captain Obvious -- released a study showing that hacker attacks are
getting more sophisticated. Doesn't this happen each and every year?
Diving into the details, Cisco says spam makes up about 90 percent of all e-mail traffic. (Since my e-mail is published everywhere, including in this newsletter, spam is about 99 percent of all my mail.) There's also a new form of personalized spam; this way, phishers trick you into thinking the mail is truly legit. Botnets are also getting trickier, the network giant says.
Posted by Doug Barney on December 18, 2008