TrendLabs 'Threat Trends 2010' - a very interesting report!

[~BD~]

The Year of the Toolkit!

The rise of toolkits turned non-techies into hackers; pharmaceutical
spam and mobile threats took center stage in 2010.

Wannabe cybercriminals were able to execute attacks with impunity and
relative ease thanks to toolkits, pre-written software programs designed
to steal information, rendering 2010 “The Year of the Toolkit” according
to Trend Micro threat researchers. Toolkits proliferated through mass
social media sites like Twitter throughout the year.

While overall global spam volume decreased, the U.S. received the most
spam with India coming in second, due to the country’s growth in
Internet usage and its use of English in most forms of formal
communication. Europe experienced the highest spike in spam, frequently
written in Spanish and most of which were online casino and gambling themed.

More than 80 percent of the top malware (that caused the most
infections) in 2010 arrived via the web. The majority of malicious URLs
and, consequently, victims of malware infections in 2010 were found in
the U.S. and China.

http://us.trendmicro.com/imperia/md/...10x210-web.pdf

[Bullwinkle.]

"~BD~" <~BD~@nomail.afraid.com> wrote in message
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[Mike Easter]

~BD~ wrote:
> The Year of the Toolkit!

> http://us.trendmicro.com/imperia/md/...10x210-web.pdf

That is an interesting article, but it is a very poorly 'designed' .pdf.
Very very poor.

They put 2 'actual' pages side by side on each .pdf page, and they chose
a light gray font with very poor contrast with its background.

It would be easier to read if all of the text were extracted. Or
perhaps I will see if Calibre can convert the .pdf to something else
which displays better.


--
Mike Easter

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid>

> ~BD~ wrote:
>> The Year of the Toolkit!
>
>> http://us.trendmicro.com/imperia/md/...10x210-web.pdf
>
> That is an interesting article, but it is a very poorly 'designed' .pdf. Very very poor.
>
> They put 2 'actual' pages side by side on each .pdf page, and they chose a light gray
> font with very poor contrast with its background.
>
> It would be easier to read if all of the text were extracted. Or perhaps I will see if
> Calibre can convert the .pdf to something else which displays better.
>

Nothing wrong with the layout. Kind of reminds me of Briefing Slides.

What matters is the content, not the delivery mechanism, and the delivery mechanism is
straight-forward and legible.

--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[Dustin]

Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote in
news:93fkbeFqsU1@mid.individual.net:

> That is an interesting article, but it is a very poorly 'designed'
> .pdf. Very very poor.

Doesn't seem that bad here. I had to increase to 100% to read it without
squinting tho. That's Foxit and firefox...
200% is overkill, my eyes aren't that bad yet.

> It would be easier to read if all of the text were extracted. Or
> perhaps I will see if Calibre can convert the .pdf to something else
> which displays better.

Foxit won't lemme extract the text, but I can always tell firefox I want
to print the document, er to a "text file."


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