Symantec Inc., one of the industry’s leaders in virus and internet protection software has released their analyses of malware activities that wanted to steal personal information for the year 2007. It shows that from Jan to Jun last year, there were almost 7,000 incidents of attacks on the internet and systems their software are protecting while almost double for the next half year. This trend is quite alarming for cyber attacks have grown considerably that more and more people are falling victim to such attacks. The company conducts their own hacker communications analyses and other intelligence by analyzing information they set in honey-pots (purposely set traps to track hacker activities) and the results their software sends in to them for analyses.