BACKGROUND:
OTHER STUFF:
, released its 2011 Trend and Risk Report which surveys some 4,000 customers, and the report showed the following:
• Spam out: a 50% decline in spam email compared to 2010.
• Better patching: Only 36% of software vulnerabilities remaining unpatched in 2011 compared to 43% in 2010. Some security vulnerabilities are never patched, but the percentage of unpatched vulnerabilities has been decreasing steadily over the past few years.