Symantec Security Update - July 2005: Worldwide and Japan

Overview

This white paper offers a brief summary of Internet security activity for the month of July 2005. The paper covers developments in vulnerabilities, attacks, malicious code and spam. This paper will discuss security developments in the Japan region over the past month. Symantec comprehensively tracks attack activity across the entire Internet. Over 20,000 sensors deployed in over 180 countries by Symantec DeepSight Threat Management System and Symantec Managed Security Services gather this data. The attack statistics discussed in this paper are based on attacks detected by these sensors between June 24 and July 23, 2005.