This is again one of those topics which I like to rant about, so I give you the short version: when you see a number, question it! Most of the numbers thrown at us in different media can be disproven quite easily and it is our responsibility as people not ...
more ...This again is the case of a couple of links on the same topic piling up in my reader (this tends to happen if you take a pause in blogging :-)):
Here is something I’ve been thinking about lately: most (all?) security
vendors publish their “top-threats” periodically. Those lists are made
up by centralizing numbers reported by their clients. While it is safe
to assume that the majority of the enumerated threats are blocked
straight-away – before they can execute a ...