March 19, 2007

Number of Internet threats increased by 64 per cent in 2006 eChannelLine, Canada - Vanessa Ho 2006 was the year of zero-day attacks, according to volume XI of Symantec Corp's Internet Security Threat Report, which took a look at the worldwide Internet threat landscape for the second half of 2006. In the report, Symantec documented 12 zero-day vulnerabilities. This is a significant increase over the first half of 2006 and the second half of 2005 when only one zero-day vulnerability was documented for each reporting period. Overall the number of threats increased by 300 per cent since 2005, 64 per cent alone in 2006.  The US had the highest number of bot command-and-control computers, accounting for 40 per cent of the worldwide total. In Canada, the Symantec report noted the top bot infected cities with Toronto number one at 21 per cent of infected machines followed by Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary and Ottawa. 3:12:48 PM

Why would Google make a phone? (InfoWorld). InfoWorld - Rumors abound that Google plans to launch a mobile phone with the look and feel of a BlackBerry but with better Internet capabilities. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 3:09:44 PM