PINcept.com: 2009 Computer Crime and Security Survey Snippets

2009 Computer Crime and Security Survey Snippets

The Computer Security Institute (CSI) pre-released selected findings from its 2009 Computer Crime and Security Survey. The key findings are NOT good. Password sniffing almost doubled, web site defacement (including cloning) did, financial fraud rose from 12% to almost 20% and malware infection (including online banking trojans) jumped from 50% to almost 65%.

Respondents reported big jumps in incidence of:

Password sniffing (17.3 percent, over 9 percent last year)

Web site defacement (13.5 percent over 6 percent last year)

Financial fraud (19.5 percent, over 12 percent last year)

Denials of service (29.2 percent, over 21 percent last year)

Malware infection (64.3 percent over 50 percent last year).

The full report will be released on December 8th. Until then, they have made a webcast available at their website. The CSI Computer Crime & Security Survey is the world's most widely quoted research on computer crime. This webcast, moderated by CSI Director Robert Richardson, features survey project leader and CSI senior editor Sara Peters, who discusses the findings of the 2009 Survey and what they mean.

To listen to their webcast, follow this link.