Ten Signs It's a Slow News Week - An Analysis

NOTE:

I wrote this blog post in 2007. 

• Articles starting that malware increased 450% during the last quarter - of course it's supposed to increase given the automated polymorphism they've achieved thereby having anti virus vendors spend more money on infrastructure to analyze it
• Articles starting that spam and malware attacks will increase and get more sophisticated

• Articles discussing a new malware spreading around instant messaging networks -- psst they're hundreds of them currently spreading

• Articles discussing how signature based malware scanning is next while an anti virus vendor's ad is rotating on the right side of the article

• Articles commenting on an exploit code for a high risk vulnerability made public -- it's been usually circulating around VIP underground forums weeks before it made to the mainstream media, with script kiddies leaking it to other script kiddies

• Articles pointing out how phishers started targeting a specific company

• Article emphasizing on how mobile malware will take over the world, despite that there no known outbreaks currently active in the wild

• Articles pointing out that having a firewall and an updated anti virus software is important

• Articles discussing which OS is the most secure one

• Articles mentioning the percentage increase in the thousands of spam and phishing emails for the last quarter

Stay tuned!