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At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Switzerland, McAfeeannounced the results of a survey of 600 IT security execs in "critical infrastructure enterprises worldwide": that is, in places such as utility companies, banks, and even oil refineries. And apparently, they're constantly under cyber attack and also extortion related to those attacks.
The report, written by the Center for Strategic and International Studies(CSIS), says that 54 percent of those surveyed have already been attacked. The culprits behind the cyber-attacks are listed as "organized crime-gangs, terrorists, or nation-states."
Only one-fifth of the IT execs surveyed believe their systems are currently secure. One-third say things are worse now, vulnerability-wise, than a year ago, due to budget cuts.
What constitutes a cyber attack? A distributed denial of service (DDoS) is the most typical. 64 percent of those surveyed have experienced one that disrupted operations; 29 percent get them multiple times per month. A DDoS attack is, of course, conducted by bot-nets--robot networks of infected computers--so if you get malware on your PC, you might be doing your part to bring down foreign (or local) utilities and corporations.
Only one-fifth of the IT execs surveyed believe their systems are currently secure. One-third say things are worse now, vulnerability-wise, than a year ago, due to budget cuts.
What constitutes a cyber attack? A distributed denial of service (DDoS) is the most typical. 64 percent of those surveyed have experienced one that disrupted operations; 29 percent get them multiple times per month. A DDoS attack is, of course, conducted by bot-nets--robot networks of infected computers--so if you get malware on your PC, you might be doing your part to bring down foreign (or local) utilities and corporations.
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