Posted on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Over the same time period in 2005, 12 percent of companies suffered a keylogging event, according to the firm’s Web(at)Work Survey, which polled 351 of the nation’s IT decision-makers and 500 U.S. employees ages 18 and up who have internet access at work.
The survey, conducted earlier this year, also revealed bots, software silently installed to a user’s PC and remotely controlled by a malicious attacker, are a growing threat. Nineteen percent of the respondents said bots infected employees’ PCs or laptops, while just over one-third are “very or extremely confident” they can defend against the malware.
