There’s some good news and bad news in cybersecurity software company Symantec’s final monthly intelligence report for the year, published Tuesday: The good news is that the global rate of email spam fell to its lowest level since 2008. The bad news is that targeted cyber attacks, the kind that can lead to advanced persistent threats such as Duqu and Stuxnet, increased by an astonishing 400 percent over the course of the year.
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