Laptop Losses and Phishing Fruit Salad

Laptop Losses and Phishing Fruit Salad
Dr. Neal Krawetz, 2007-02-15

Dr. Neal Krawetz takes a look at the numbers behind reports of laptop thefts and phishing attacks, showing inconsistent metrics and the difficulty in using numbers to determine the real level of threat.

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Laptop Losses and Phishing Fruit Salad 2007-02-17
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According to Postini (http://www.postini.com/stats/index.php), 80% of email today is spam.
At the same time, MessageLabs (http://www.messagelabs.com/Threat_Watch) reports that spam is 52% of all email.

What are they measuring, and why do they have such different stats?

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