The recently released IBM X-Force mid-year threat report revealed a lot of interesting things about threats, security breaches, phishing and targeted network attacks.
So what do the graphs and numbers exactly reveal?
It seems as the number of SQL injection attacks has witnessed an upward trend in the first part of 2011, but according to the report, it's too early to determine the overall tendency.
While SQL injection attacks seem to rule when it comes to volume, they're closely followed by SQL_SSRP_Slammer_Worm which was seen doing its job 90 million times. The top 10 is closed by SMB_Mass_Login with just under 10 million hits.
The hourly infection attempts recorded between March 10 and March 11 show that the most attempts were made between 00:00 and the early hours of the morning GMT time.
The number of newly registered anonymous proxy websites has also grown, recording a 300% growth compared to the first semester of 2008.
