Microsoft's intelligence security report: The top 5 takeaways

Posted by Larry Dignan; April 8th, 2009 @ 2:15 am

Microsoft on Wednesday will unveil its sixth Security Intelligence Report and the tome—all 184 pages of it—has a lot of interesting data points culled from the software giant's antivirus applications. Microsoft concludes that rogue security software is a big threat, lost and stolen equipment is a bigger issue than hacking and PDF and Office extensions are leading vectors.