Here's something to keep you awake at night - the OECD reckon one in four computers in the US
are infected with malware of various forms. It's all highly sophisticated and getting more and more devious as the baddies take over huge number of machines to provide a global botnet to do their bidding.
Kits to mount cyber attacks are even available to buy online - except as previously reported - some of these were found to have a sting in the tail whereby they sent the harvested info back to base.
Cyber crime pays it would appear. So what to do? Well - firewalls and anti-virus obviously help - as does warning the users endlessly. You could also argue that it should influence your choice of operating system. It did mine