A webinar I gave in September 2010 about protecting organizations from phishing scams. This talk is based on our research at Carnegie Mellon University.
Image from BusinessWeek Apr 2008 San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco's annual security study found that spam is growing quickly — nearly 200 billion spam messages are now sent each day, double the volume in 2007 — and that targeted attacks are also rising sharply. More than 0.4% of all spam sent in September were targeted attacks, Cisco found. That might sound low, but since 90% of all e-mails sent worldwide are spam, this means 800 million messages a day are attempts are spear phishing. A year ago, targeted attacks with personalized messages were less than 0.1% of all spam.