Computers, like humans, have millions of viruses and bugs — and just like us some don’t have any cures! Isn’t that a cool analogy? And the facts associated with Computer threats, as the following infographics is going to show you, are even cooler!
Computer Threats – Interesting Facts
![Why Computer Threats Can be Interesting [Infographic]](http://techchunks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Why-Computer-Threats-Can-be-Interesting-Infographic.jpg "Why Computer Threats Can be Interesting [Infographic]")
- In year 2002, only 20,000 Computer viruses, worms and trojans were found active. Since then, 2.6 million malicious code threats have been detected till date.
- 23% of all malicious activity was US based, the average cost of a data breach was $6.7 million and 27% of data breaches occured in the education sector.
- 76% of all phishing scams target the financial industry and only 24% target ISP, retails, internet government and online gaming industry.
- Credit card info accounts for 32% of all stolen information that was sold. Bank account credentials represent another 19% of sold information.
- Symantec is the largest developer of computer security software – they track over 32,000 vulnerabilities, spanning 72,000 technologies and 11,000 vendors. They process 8 billion phishing and spam emails per day.
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- 13% of bot infected machines are in China, making it the most infected country. 4% are in Buenos Aires, the most infected city.
If you want more such exciting yet alarming facts about Computer threats then we suggest you to take a look at this infographic:
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Mozilla is great for every purpose. Interesting figure.
And the fact that Google loves them (Mozilla) too, makes them even more credible!
this is good site many useful things in this site
Mozilla is great for every purpose. Interesting figure.
lmao amazing story bro.
Thanks
Now this is scary bro! It seems to be that we are living in a malware farm!!!!
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Farm? Its better to call it a “Malware Hell”, where little carelessness can doom you!
This was very interesting read.
Thanks Sandrina. Welcome to TechChunks
I am glad I use firefox
lol
now a days, It has become really important to use softwares that can protect us from such attacks….
And practicing safe internet browsing can go a long way towards protecting you against such threats!
Really good information..I never knew Firefox is so fast at creating patches..
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