A report from IBM’s security division estimates that in 2014 “at lease” a billion records of people across the world were leaked.
That’s about one in seven of this planet’s humanoid population.
IBM released its X-Force quarterly report and relays information about over 9,000 security “vulnerabilities” affecting over 2,600 vendors in 2014. That’s an increase of 9.8 percent compared to 2013 and Big Blue said it’s the highest single year total in the 18 years it’s been tracking such things.
The USA has suffered the most because at 74.5 percent that’s far higher than other territories. IBM said that 40.2 percent of the most common attacks didn’t get described by those surveyed but malware and DDoS accounted for as much as 17.2 percent each.
IBM said that there was a big rise in so-called designer vulnerabilities.
All operating systems seemed to be under attack – including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
One key vulnerability happened in October with a researcher showing there are thousands of security problems in Android apps.
