Keylogger software increased by 50% in companies

17% of companies have a scale of more than 100 employees who discovered that, in their network over the past 12 months, spyware, most are programs that detect characters entered from the keyboard (keylogger).

According to US security firm Websense, the figure shows the growth of keyloggers in organizations has reached nearly 50%. " Although the system has been equipped with the most advanced versions of antivirus, antispyware, firewall . we still recognize the continuous development of the spyware community ", Joel Camissar, expert Websense, affirmed.

Spyware is considered one of the most serious security issues. They infiltrate computers that users are unaware of, then monitor the habits of browsing the web, steal personal information, passwords . in the PC. The US Trade Commission said it would soon take measures to punish those that disperse them.

One cause of spyware growth is the fact that spyware creation kits are being sold publicly on the Internet. " There are 77 password-stealing applications posted online in April 2005. In March of this year, we discovered at least 197 tools. The number of 'store' websites of the keylogger software also increased by 10 times. from 260 to 2,157 pages in the same timeframe , "Camissar said.

Websense's survey also showed that the leaders of the companies showed little confidence that employees could distinguish the original and the fraudulent website. " 47% of managers claim their employees have opened phishing e-mails and cannot determine exactly which sites are reliable ," Camissar said.

TN