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Cyber

Annual Symantec Internet Security Report Finds Cyber Attacks Up

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

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The number and variety of targeted cyber attacks increased in 2011 although the number of new vulnerabilities declined, the computer security firm Symantec [SYMC] says this week in its annual Internet Security Threat Report. The report says that the number of malicious attacks increased by 81 percent in 2011 over 2010 while the number of vulnerabilities decreased by 20 percent. Symantec says that advanced attacks are spreading to organizations of all sizes, not just large ones, that data breaches are…

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