Information Technology Reference
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Some antivirus and antimalware packages include fairly sophisticated al-
gorithms that attempt to seek out new threats that are not yet recorded in their data-
bases of known threats. These techniques for stopping new kinds of attacks are not
100% effective, but they are better than nothing and may stop a significant num-
ber.
The Odds of Being Attacked
From reviewing a number of web reports on various kinds of cybercrime and data
theft, it is interesting to speculate on the probability of being impacted by these
events over the next three years. The results shown in
Table 12.2
are speculative
but are based on extrapolation from recent cyberattacks reported on the web.
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