Oliver Friedrichs Quotations

The potential for graphical image-based exploits is especially concerning as it affects multiple applications and requires no user interaction.

Users (should) apply the updates as quickly as possible.

Financially-motivated attacks have reached an unprecedented rate. There's an entirely new economy focused on the bartering and purchasing of confidential information. And with the higher stakes, we're seeing professional caliber efforts going into today's threats.

breaks into the server and tries to spread.

Application vulnerabilities, such as the issue in Windows Media Player, are a growing cause of concern.

It really generates a lot of network traffic. It's really just going to slow down Internet performance.

Symantec recommends that users apply the updates as quickly as possible and refrain from opening unknown attachments or clicking on suspicious links that arrive via e-mail or instant messages,

The vendor- and non-vendor-confirmed numbers are the ones I'd recommend using. For one thing, it removes the delay that can effect numbers because of long patch times by commercial vendors.

These vulnerabilities are increasingly being used to facilitate online fraud through the installation of malicious software on vulnerable computers. Symantec has already seen exploits for some of these vulnerabilities in the wild and recommends that users apply the updates as quickly as possible.

How we did it before wasn't a fair comparison. It wasn't an apples to apples comparison.

The general trend is that attackers aren't concentrating on 'far and wide,' worms, but on financial gain.