By ESET.
Click to read full report: The challenge of internet privacy
Introduction
As usual for the end of the year, ESET Latin America’s Research Laboratory has written ESET‘s annual threat trends report, which addresses several subjects in Information Security the aim of this report is to make the community aware of the present computer threat landscape and, accordingly, attempt to predict its possible evolution in the coming years On this basis, in 2011, a growing trend for botnets and malware for profit was noticeable.
In 2012, the main trend was directly related to threats designed for mobile platforms. One year later, our main topic was vertiginous growth of malicious codes for mobile devices and at present, although these threats keep growing and evolving, the main topic focuses on the growing concern expressed by users regarding Internet privacy.
In this sense, cases such as the revelations by Edward Snowden concerning the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States
had influence on the growing concern about Internet security. Nevertheless, this trend has not meant a decrease in cases of people
affected by any malicious code or other kind of computer threat It can be asserted that concern about privacy is a good starting point on the user side; however, it is essential for people to be aware of all aspects of Information Security. Otherwise, it is not possible to mitigate the impact of computer threats/
This situation is equivalent to a person being worried about the safety of his home, but not actually installing an alarm system, so that he is still just as likely to become the victim of some incident.
