The effects of cybercrime are far reaching. It would be a difficult task to find someone who has never been affected by malicious Internet activity. If the Internet is to become a safer place, it is imperative to understand the trends and developments taking place in the Internet threat landscape. In July 2009, an average of 89 percent of all e-mail messages were spam. The level of sophistication in such threats continues to rise. As society picks up one end of the social networking stick, it finds that it inevitably picks up the security problems on the other end.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2124314/internet-security-trends-2009–an-interim-update.html