Contents tagged with Threat Landscape in South America
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The Threat Landscape in South America: Argentina and Uruguay
In this third part of our series on the threat landscape in South America, we examine threats in Argentina and Uruguay. Of the locations represented in Figure 1, Argentina and Uruguay are among the locations with the lowest malware infection rates in South America. Read more
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The Threat Landscape in South America: Examining Brazil’s Dramatic Improvement
This article, part 2 of a series on the threat landscape in South America, focuses on Brazil. Brazil has had one of the most active threat landscapes in the world for many years. As seen in Figure 1, in the first quarter of 2011 (1Q11), Brazil’s infection rate (19.18) was over double that of the worldwide average (8.65). But Brazil’s infection rate dramatically improved over the following nine quarters, ending the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13) at 6.7 compared to the worldwide average of 5.8. Read more
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The Threat Landscape in South America
One region of the world I haven’t written extensively about before is South America. Recently I had the opportunity to visit a couple of countries/regions in South America to visit customers and discuss the threats they see in their environments. This is part 1 in a series of articles that will focus on threats found in several locations including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay. All of these articles are based on new data published in the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 15 and previous volumes.