Symantec has released its Internet Security Threat Report Volume XIV: April, 2009. This report details some trends that have been noticed ,by this security giant, that are used by hackers to compromise computers. Also, it details some of the incentives that are driving such attacks, for instance credit card numbers that are harvested are sold in the underground community, open email relays are used for spamming, botnets can be used to carry out distributed denial of service (dDOS) attacks.
You can download this document for free at http://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/wl?tu_id=gCGG123913789453640802
To visit the Symantec Threat Report webpage follow this link http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=threatreport
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