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Instant Messengers Suffer Massive Hit

The user simply as couriers and the companies which are constantly improving on a monthly basis, some of these applications are quite strong. However, such an impressive popularity does not necessarily mean that they are 100 percent sure, because the new data, instant messaging, May is one of the most popular targets for hackers today. Akonix Systems has an interesting research which showed that the attempts by malicious instant messaging have almost tripled in April.

"In this month of the increase in IM attacks, the pirates also continue to have access to the companies because they provide instant messaging and unified communications platforms for the new year," said Don Montgomery, Vice President of Marketing at Akonix . "Companies need to recognize that the introduction of new instruments of cooperation and increases the risk of an attack, as each new application, a new instrument of infection."

The worst is that no fewer than 21 attacks, aimed at the instant-messaging software are new, which means that certain security of May have difficulties when trying to deal with them. Akonix, which states, an increase of 162 percent was registered in March, underlines once more the need to improve security measures.

Among the new-born IM threats, ARCserve, Imspread and QVOD were discovered all on the Web attacks on instant messaging technologies. However, the most popular are the threats and IRCBot Tiotua, according to Akonix, settled in about every three variants.

In addition to instant messaging, P2P networks have also been attacked by new threats. According to the same source, the attacks on the P2P services grew by 13 percent.

All these statistics do not do that the need for efficient and techniques for security and even though the chat on the Internet by an instant messaging-May sounds like a piece of cake, it could easily fit into a tragedy when someone succeeded in your Computers.

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