38 per cent of businesses in New York, 35 per cent in San Francisco, 36 per cent in London and 34 per cent in Frankfurt were at risk from drive-by hacking because of unsecured or badly secured wireless networks - source: PC Magazine News

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Processing between 50,000 and 60,000 new copies per hour, "W32/Mydoom.A has exceeded the infamous SoBig.F virus in terms of copies intercepted, and the number continues to rise."
Message Labs collected over 1.2 Million copies of W32/Mydoom.A-mm. At its peak infection rate, about 1 in 12 emails on the Internet were MyDoom Viruses - source: Message Labs

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Financial services companies are spending approximately 6% of their IT budgets on information security
47% hired extra security staff compared with 2001. Only 19% of respondents said they had reduced the number of IT security staff, despite the slowdown in the economy. - source: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

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PSINet Europe purposely built an unprotected server and connected it to the Internet to determine how quickly it would be compromised. Their findings were astonishing: The server was maliciously attacked 467 times in the first 24 hours. Most of the attacks originated in the US or Western Europe. After 3 weeks, a total of 626 attacks were detected against the server - source: ZDNet

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By exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft's IIS web server product, over 250,000 web sites are thought to have been compromised by the "Code Red" worm, in the course of a 9 hour period. - source: CERT

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Earlier this week a Trojan horse was found that targets Nokia Series 60 phones, which use Symbian. And last week, a smartphone virus called Cabir infected a handset in France, making it the seventeenth country to fall victim to the malware. - source: ZDNet