Posted on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Rethinking your Email Protection strategies
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Sophos reports 51 percent of e-mail that links to Web sites is infected with downloadable spyware. Simply by clicking the link and opening the browser window, the desktop is infected — unless there is some protection in place to block the malicious payload. It’s not just spoofed Web sites network admins need to worry about either; 80 percent of sites that deliver malicious payload are legitimate sites that hackers compromised for their evil deeds, Sophos reported.
“Malicious hackers are professional. They try to break the protection and they test their attacks against anti-virus companies to see if they can break through,” said security analyst Fred Touchette. One of the key challenges is to be careful not to tighten the screws to the point that you get a high percentage of false positives.
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