http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081001/BUSINESS/810010317/1003 By Dave Hodges DEMOCRAT BUSINESS EDITOR October 1, 2008 Tallahassee's rank at the bottom of the 100 U.S. cities with the most computer security threats and virus threats means the community is the safest of those analyzed, but experts say that is no reason to relax security. Software company PCTools officially released Tuesday a list of the most targeted cities from members of its Threatfire community, made up of about 450,000 users of that security software in the United States. Each time Threatfire detects and blocks a threat, it records the incident for analysis. PCTools said the data shows that the most prevalent types of attacks users see are adware, followed by trojans, the malware that appears to carry out a desirable function, but is actually doing harm to the computer. "Tallahassee was the cleanest with the least number of threats," said Michael Greene, vice president for product strategy at PCTools. The ranking was based on data reviewed for the first half of the year. New York City topped the list and Houston was second, followed by Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami. Other cities with low threat levels were East Lansing, Mich.; Columbus, Ga.; Rockford, Ill., and Lincoln, Neb. [...] __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/Received on Wed Oct 01 2008 - 23:43:29 PDT
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