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Cyber insecurity: viruses * spam * spyware you're more vulnerable than you think.(CR INVESTIGATES)
Attacks on the Internet spread like measles across an animated world map in a war-room-style chamber. The red dots advancing across the projected continents signified attempts at unauthorized entry into enterprise or home computers, probably to steal data or spread malicious software. That was the scene our reporter observed when he recently visited the Alexandria, Va., facility of security provider Symantec.
An accompanying tally certified the cyberassaults as a full-blown plague: More than 59 million such attempts had come from North America alone during the previous 24 hours of monitoring.
The 40,000 sensors worldwide monitored by Symantec's private ...
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