IT departments should take on an educational role

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ScanSafe's latest Global Threat Report for July found an increase of 87 per cent in web-based malware blocks fromJune to July, mainly caused by the increasing use of SQL injectionattacks.
July also saw a surge in social engineering-based email attacks,where users are tricked into installing backdoor Trojans and othermalware on their PCs. According to ScanSafe, 95 per cent of itscustomers tried to click on links to malicious sites in theseemails.
“This is a pretty disturbingly high percentage; it doesn'tspeak to anything adverse on the customers' part though, but morethe high level of social engineering on the part of theattackers," said ScanSafe's Mary Landesman. "A lot of theemails we saw were masquerading as news alerts from reputablesources such as Google and CNN."
Landesman advised that alongside implementing web filtering technology, IT departments should take on an educational role to"bring the user up to a higher level of understanding"about the nature of current threats.
The ScanSafe Global Threat Report is based on analysis of more than 10 billion web requests scannedeach month on behalf of businesses in more than 60 countries, thefirm said.
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