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Read more>> Threats and Trends December 2008(Stockholm 2008-12-15) The alert statistic shows that most alerts occur in partner zone, but these are rarely severe. The most severe alerts this period has occurred from Internet, and are due to attacks towards web servers, mostly in financial institutions. There have been a slight increase in the number of reconnaissance attacks. We see, however, that there is no difference from last month when it comes to attacks against VNC. Algeria have surprisingly entered the top 10 list of countries of origin. Among spam/worm we see an increase in the traffic towards port 445 this month. This is due to new worms targeting this port, and then in particular W32.Downandup. A patch for this problem has been released by Microsoft. Focus of The Month: The Art of Security War Threats and Trends is produced by personnel in Secode's Operations Centre, and the report is based upon events registered during the specified period. The report contains events deemed to be of public interest, as they are registered by Secode and the vaious sensors and observation points in different networks. All specific and identifiable information about companies and Secode customers is removed in this report. The reports are published on these pages monthly. The reports only contain observations, and Secode will not accept any responsibility for interpretations, theories or conclusions based on this material by any third party. No further comments on material presented in the reports will normally be given by Secode. Copyright Secode AB 2007 - 2008. | 
