IBM report shows cybersleeze zeroing in on gamers

Posted by: Stephen Baker on July 29

Just got this X-force online security report from IBM. It finds that half of the top 10 password-stealing Trojans for the first half of 2008 were specifically designed to steal personal information from online gamers.

One other note: Russia is responsible for 11 percent of the world’s spam followed by Turkey with 8% and then the United States with 7.1 percent… Turkey beats us too?

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