Netcraft
Research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet.
Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England. Netcraft is funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways:
* Providing internet security services, including anti-fraud and anti-phishing services, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing.
* Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the internet. |
Online Security Threats and Market Grow
JUNE 12, 2007 - There's a reason your IT staff is always busy.
The arrest in late May of "King of Spam" Robert Alan Soloway focused attention on the scale of online criminal activity. Mr. Soloway was indicted on 35 counts involving billions of e-mails in an operation that made it much tougher for legitimate e-mail marketers to do their jobs.
Beyond spam, it is hard enough for the average Internet user to secure a personal computer from the growing array of online threats of viruses (both those borne by e-mail and those embedded in other software and Web pages) and malware. Managing security for an online/offline business, however, is a whole different ballgame. |
