Archive for December, 2009
The odds an adult will plan to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa are 1 in 1.07 US
1 in 1.07The odds an adult will plan to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa are 1 in 1.07 US, 9/2008 – 10/2008.
How Huge Is the Internet on an Average Day? – Internet – Gizmodo
One in 200 success rate keeps phishing economy ticking over
One in 200 success rate keeps phishing economy ticking over
Phishers only need to land a minute percentage of victims to make scams worthwhile.
Stats culled from Trusteer’s anti-phishing browser plug-in, which is offered by banks to their clients as a transaction security add-on, revealed that 0.47 per cent of a bank’s customers fall victim to phishing attacks each year. The figure comes from the number of users who visited and attempted to enter data onto a known phishing site but escaped because they were using Trusteer’s Rapport browser security plug-in.
Half (45 per cent) of bank customers who are redirected towards a phishing site attempted to hand over their login credentials.
The overall response rate to phishing scams translates to between $2.4m-$9.4m in annual fraud losses (per one million online banking clients), according to Trusteer.
via One in 200 success rate keeps phishing economy ticking over • The Register.
Fun facts about Google Chrome for Mac
- 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written
- 29 developer builds
- 1,177 Mac-specific bugs fixed
- 12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Mac code base, 48 external code contributors
- 64 Mac Minis doing continuous builds and tests 8,760 cups of soft drinks and coffee consumed 4,380 frosted mini-wheats eaten
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/huzzah.html