Microsoft: 'State of security is improving'
Microsoft has witnessed an improvement in the way people are securing their computers.
Speaking at the company's TechEd conference in Amsterdam today, Detlef Eckert, chief security advisor for Microsoft, said although the level of hacking and virus attacks remains constant, people are being more vigilant about online threats.
Eckert told silicon.com: "While the attacks are not going down and the network worms are still a risk, society at large has got better. What we sense is a shift of the professional criminal attacks. They are more targeted and they go on the premise 'how do we get money?' They are phishing attacks that look for bank details, espionage attacks that use Trojans or botnets that do denial of service attacks."
