IE

"I just stole fifty cars in one night! I'm a little tired, little "wired," and I think I deserve a little appreciation!" – Memphis, Gone in Sixty Seconds (Touchstone Pictures, 2000)

If you pay a lot of attention to your online security, you're probably not reading this. If you pay no attention, you're probably screwed! If you have a normal concern…how bad can it be? Take a minute and go to your favorite sites and search on the subject of online/onphone security.

You'll probably find that:

• there's an increase in the presence of malicious content on trusted sites – including search engines, blogs, bulletin boards, personal web sites, online magazines and mainstream news sites
• there are more than 170,000 new malware apps spotted every month
• more than 800,000 phishing emails were reported in one month at mid-year
• $4.5 bln lost to phishing in 2007
• $740 mln lost in 2 years to e-mail scams
• 1.45% of e-mails sent in May 2006 contained viruses
• 129 mln Americans received phishing e-mails
• 4.57% of Gmail filtered spam is false positive
• 22.5 million different samples of malware were recorded in June, double the year before
• New webpage infections were discovered by Sophos every 3.6 sec (4x faster than last year)