Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
IIA CEO, Peter Coroneos, said: "The pronounced increase in infection rates cannot be ignored. Our main concern is the damage to trust and confidence in the digital economy arising from the zombie threat."
According to the IIA centrally controlled networks of infected PCs, botnets, were responsible for 85 percent of all global spam in February 2008 and since then the number of infected computers in Australia has more than doubled from 76,000 to 174,000 according to online fraud and abuse control firm ThreatMetrix. The company track almost 200 million compromised computers and estimates a 20 percent increase of tracked infected computers globally in the past year.
Other supporters are AusCERT, Cleartext, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos, Staysmartonline.gov.au, Symantec, ThreatMetrix. A new site, zombieweek.com will alert all online users to check their PCs for malicious software and remedy problems.
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