Everyone who accesses the internet has already received unsolicited emails. advertisements for shops that you never even heard of for the promotion of products, spam is sent on a large scale and cause huge losses for companies. At least that's what it says a recent survey by security firm BitDefender.
According to the report, the number of spam circulating on the Internet every day is daunting: there are 264 billion unsolicited emails per day. This means that until you get to this part of the text, at least about 10 million emails were received by people all over the world.
For two weeks, BitDefender analyzed a sample of 2 million spams - the total number of messages sent every second. According to the company, 1.14% of emails contain attachments, usually with HTML pages, text files, Word and Windows executables. The PDF documents are also chosen by attackers - as these files are not usually blocked on corporate networks, it is easier to spread a malware exploiting several security flaws in Adobe Reader outdated one.
Besides the inconvenience, these messages also cause damage. Considering that each worker spends two minutes a day reading deleted or unsolicited messages at the end of the year the company would have paid 21 hours of unproductive work for each employee. Furthermore, 78% of problems with data loss in business is generated by people trying to open the pictures from the party in *. Exe. The damage is greater because not only filters spam and phishing emails leading provider of saving part of this thankless task.
According to the report, the number of spam circulating on the Internet every day is daunting: there are 264 billion unsolicited emails per day. This means that until you get to this part of the text, at least about 10 million emails were received by people all over the world.
For two weeks, BitDefender analyzed a sample of 2 million spams - the total number of messages sent every second. According to the company, 1.14% of emails contain attachments, usually with HTML pages, text files, Word and Windows executables. The PDF documents are also chosen by attackers - as these files are not usually blocked on corporate networks, it is easier to spread a malware exploiting several security flaws in Adobe Reader outdated one.
Besides the inconvenience, these messages also cause damage. Considering that each worker spends two minutes a day reading deleted or unsolicited messages at the end of the year the company would have paid 21 hours of unproductive work for each employee. Furthermore, 78% of problems with data loss in business is generated by people trying to open the pictures from the party in *. Exe. The damage is greater because not only filters spam and phishing emails leading provider of saving part of this thankless task.
