The latest figures from the APWG show a decline in phishing reports. Verizon, on the other hand, implies that almost all incidents of cyber espionage reported in the last year included some phishing component. This seems to confirm that phishing attacks are becoming less scatter-gun, focusing more on specific targets. 
Naked Security – Sophos
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Google’s JPEG Alternative WebP Gets Smarter, Takes on PNG — Last year, Google introduced a new image format for the web called WebP. WebP is meant to be a modern alternative to the popular but patent-encumbered JPEG standard. It produces significantly smaller files without sacrificing image quality.
The FBI has disrupted six times as many terrorist plots in 2010 compared to 2001 — indicting and convicting hundreds in that time.
In a “visual snaphot” graphic document released on Oct. 28 the agency shows the changes put in place since 9/11 have yielded dramatic results.
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Randy Heffernan
While businesses worldwide have been actively embracing data analytics and quantitative analysis to understand risks and make more informed decisions, these techniques have been slow to make their way into law enforcement agencies.
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