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23 percent of SMBs have been compromised by employees who accessed personal Webmail accounts, says a Webroot survey.
24 percent of SMBs have been compromised by employees using social networking sites.
12.4 percent of all web-based malware intercepted was new in May, an increase of 1.5 percentage points since April.
An average of 1,770 new websites per day harboring malware and other potentially unwanted programs such as spyware and adware cropped up in May.
The number of new, dangerous websites represent an increase of 5.6 percent since April.
Social networking spam has grown by nearly 71%, and malware sent through social networking has increased by nearly 70%.
New signature creation rose to 2.89 million in 2009, versus 1.69 million in 2008, making malware harder to catch at the endpoint.
Worldwide content security appliance and software revenue grew 2.5% from Q4 2009 and Q1 of 2010, to $640 million.
The content security appliance and software market will hit $3.8 billion in 2014, according to Infonetics.
Cisco posted an 18% gain in content security revenue in Q1 2010, following a 28% gain in the preceding quarter.
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