Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Hackers like Christmas best of all

Most people may be busy with year-end gift buying and holiday parties at the end of December, but security professionals have an added obligation: keeping the hackers off their corporate networks.

Most security pros know that spammers and online criminals like to launch their campaigns when they think nobody will be minding the store, and according to a survey of attendees at the Defcon hacking conference earlier this month, Christmas is the best time of year for hackers to strike.

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