Interesting article in Friday's Wall Street Journal on potential cybersecurity legislation to improve information sharing between industry and government. Perhaps the best part of the article is the citation of statistics from Symantec's annual Internet Security Threat Report: Trends for 2009 and 2010 on how many customer has updates Symantec sent out to address new attacks customers were facing:
- 2002: 20,254 updates
- 2003: 19,159 updates
- 2004: 74,981 updates
- 2005: 113,081 updates
- 2006: 167,069 updates
- 2007: 708,742 updates
- 2008: 1,691,323 updates
- 2009: 2,895,802 updates
- 2010: 10,000,000 updates
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