Security Intelligence Report shows older systems more vulnerable.

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Today Microsoft released the latest Security Intelligence Report (SIR). The ninth volume of this comprehensive report covers evolving threat landscape trends from January through June 2010, with a focus on botnets.
You can read the report section by section online, or you can download the entire report.
Here are some of the key findings:

• Older operating systems are more vulnerable to infections than newer versions.
• Most attackers use social engineering techniques to trick you into installing malware.
• Stolen equipment remains the most frequent type of security breach incident.
• Windows Update and Microsoft Update usage has increased 75 % since the second half of 2006.

Read other key findings.

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