Significant Ket Findings from Volume 18 of Symantec’s threat report:

247,350 Blocked Web Attacks Daily…

  74,000 Malicious Web Domains that were BOTH New & Unique….

Interestingly – small to medium size businesses are the hackers target of choice…"offering the path of least resistance…"

"Key Findings

42% increase in targeted attacks in 2012.31% of all targeted attacks aimed at businesses with less than 250 employees.One waterhole attack infected 500 organizations in a single day.14 zero-day vulnerabilities.32% of all mobile threats steal information.A single threat infected 600,000 Macs in 2012.Spam volume continued to decrease, with 69% of all email being spam.The number of phishing sites spoofing social networking sites increased 125%.Web-based attacks increased 30%.5,291 new vulnerabilities discovered in 2012, 415 of them on mobile operating systems."

Interestnig that the People’s Republc of China’s technology blog sina.com.cn is reporting on the distrust of Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOE) Huawei & ZTE by Indian Intelligence…Mr Ren, Et Al cannot even get a break from another nation state such as India – this is not good folks for Chinese telecommunications manufaturers…

Mr. Ren Zhegfei declares telecom technology war on US commercial enterprises…standby to standby…continued by saying the People’s Republic of China already has all the intellectual property of the United States, China is the Middle Kingdom…

People’s Republic of China’s State Owned Enterprise (SOE) Allwinner Technologies Co. Ltd. (Zhuhai, People’s Republlic of China) has sold more tablet computer processors than all Western commercial manufacturers combined! If you use a tablet in ICS or SCADA environments check your tablets’ processor country of orign ASAP! Then contact me to figure out what to do next to protect your enterprise from Chinese hacking efforts….check out their website:

http://www.arm.com/community/partners/display_company/rw/company/allwinner-technology-co-ltd/

"In a week that began with the rare move of the Pentagon calling out the Chinese government and military for attacks on U.S. government networks, some key senators have drafted a bill that would create a watch list of nations conducting cyberespionage against the U.S., and spell out just what technologies and products are being stolen — as well as which foreign firms benefit from the intellectual property stolen from the U.S."

MicroSolved’s own Bill Hagestad is quoted in this Chinese Cyber Espionage piece by the Epoch Times:

“The Office of the Secretary of Defense is getting it correct albeit not entirely historically correct from a Chinese view,” says William Hagestad II, author of ’21st Century Chinese Cyberwarfare’ and Chinese cyber security consultant, in an email.  “The People’s Republic of China will go the full measure of preventing foreign commercial and yes, military domination of the Chinese information domain in the 21st Century.” 

The irony of Chairman Mao Tse Tung’s granddaughter being on the list of the ‘superrich’ within the People’s Republic of China…perhaps it was the intellectual property theft or prolific Chinese cyber espionage…