Information Security News: Half Of Machines Shopping On Cyber Monday Likely Contain Vulnerabilities

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By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading
Nov 20, 2012

It's that time of year again, when employees carve out a little time 
post-Turkey Day to shop for deals online while at the office on the 
Monday after Thanksgiving. And Cyber Monday once again comes fraught 
with security risks, according to new data, but most businesses say 
employee productivity is more of a concern than network threats.
Nearly 60 percent of businesses surveyed by Dell SonicWall say employees 
not working enough that day is their biggest worry, while 68 percent of 
them say that their employees are unable to recognize an online threat 
that imperils the corporate network. Companies say they also worry about 
online shopping infecting their networks, according to Dell's findings.
"Cyber Monday raises productivity issues and potentially opens corporate 
networks to possible threats," says Patrick Sweeney, executive director 
of product management for Dell SonicWall.
Qualys, meanwhile, today released data on browsers and computers that 
reveals the underlying problem with Cyber Monday: outdated browsers and 
other applications that are prime targets for online attacks. Half of 
users are running browsers that are outdated and contain 
vulnerabilities, according to the data gathered from more than 1 million 
end user computers over the past year.
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