It is always exciting to be able to announce the next version of the IBM X-Force® Trend & Risk report and today we are announcing the full year 2012 findings of key highlights that were researched by IBM X-Force.
One of the differentiators that we observed across various attacker efforts was that by targeting vulnerabilities in cross-platform frameworks, and building on a solid foundation of tried-and-true attack techniques, attackers are achieving a greater return on exploit development in 2012.
Looking back over the year, there was a measurable increase in the public announcements of security incidents and breaches, where SQL injection and DDoS attacks continued to wreak havoc on IT infrastructures.
Over the past year the discovery of sophisticated toolkits with ominous names like Flame to cross-platform zero-day vulnerabilities, had both consumers and corporations inundated with advisories and alerts regarding emerging threats. The frequency of data breaches and incidents—which had already hit a new high in2011—continued their upward trajectory.
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