Young males in emerging markets are the most likely to fall victim to cybercrime, whose total cost per year is approaching the scale of illegal drug trafficking worldwide, according to a study by the Norton division of Symantec. The 2011 Norton Cybercrime Report estimates the total cost of cybercrime at…
Microsoft’s IE9 Blocks Almost All Social Malware, Study Finds
A study prepared by NSS Labs concludes that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 blocks virtually all socially engineered malware, far more than rival browsers. The study was designed to examine one aspect of security: how a browser handled a malicious URL, such as one received in a posting on a social…