How to use Internet security threat reports

A bunch of security threat reports have hit the presses lately. Here are a few thoughts of how IT should use these, as posted in SearchSecurity ...

"The Melissa worm, one of the most prolific email viruses in history, earned its notoriety by forwarding itself to the first 50 people found in a victim's Microsoft Outlook address book. Security researchers celebrated its 10th anniversary earlier this year, and in the decade since Melissa, the world has seen a boom in viruses, Trojans, SQL injection, spam, phishing and drive-by downloads." ...