From January to June 2004 the number of viruses and worms targeting the Microsoft Corp. Windows operating system rose by 350 per cent from the same period the year before, with a total of 4,496 new pieces of malware designed to exploit it, according to a report released by Symantec Corp on Monday.
A recent report from the Yankee Group points to increasing government regulations, an ever expanding number of threats and vulnerabilities, and rapid changes in security technology as the reasons that 90 per cent of all corporate IT security will be outsourced by 2010.
With a likely upsurge in regulations requiring corporations to divulge whether sensitive customer data has been illegally accessed, Canadian companies will have to pay increasing attention to the prevention of phishing scams directed at their employees.