Indeed, the latest "State of Spyware" quarterly report released by Webroot Software, a security software firm in Boulder, CO (from which the figures above were taken) contains chilling news: the bad guys are now bringing up their big guns, so-called "rootkit" technology and "polymorphic" code.
Americans spend seven extra hours per week checking their emails and doing work outside of their regular hours, according to a 2012 by Good Technology, a security software manufacturer.
A recent study by TrendMicro, a security software firm in Cupertio, Calif., found that small-business employees spend more time browsing Web sites unrelated to work, visiting social networking sites, making online purchases and checking personal e-mail accounts than do their large-business brethren.
A report released last week by the Symantec Corporation, a security software provider, and the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, found that data breaches showed no sign of leveling off and were increasingly costly.
David Chao, cofounder of Doll Capital Management, four years ago invested $1 million in Recourse, a security software outfit cofounded by a business school chum.
Shortly after OpenBSD's creation, Theo de Raadt was contacted by a local security software company named Secure Networks, Inc. or SNI.
Sixteen months later, in response to a challenge by security software company RSA, Inc., Goldberg devised a program that harnessed the spare computing cycles of about 250 assorted workstations in Berkeley's computer science department to attack a message encrypted with a 40-bit key, the government's limit on unregistered encryption software for export.
The report, released Friday by Symantec, a computer security software firm, said there were three waves of attacks.
A 2013 survey by security software firm AVG revealed that a large amount of data loss occurs simply due to human error and carelessness.
