Snydeq writes to mention that a recent survey by KPMG shows that many people feel that out-of-work IT workers will be much more tempted to turn to illegal activities due to the down economy. This, coupled with an E-crime survey that shows fraud committed by managers, employees, and outfit* tripled between 2007 and 2008 paints an interesting picture. "In other survey results, 45 percent of respondents who handle critical subject support said they are seeing an augment in the number of attacks on their systems. Fifty-one percent of respondents from the same category said the indifferent sophistication of those attacks is getting better. Sixty-eight percent said that of all kinds of malicious code they felt Trojan horse programs — ones that are designed to look harmless but can steal data along with other functions — had the most impact on their businesses. Rootkits are the next highest concern, followed by spyware, worms, viruses, mobile malicious code and, finally, adware."

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