Web Site Vulnerabilities Continue Unabated, IBM X-Force Says
February 9, 2009 Alex Woodie
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Hackers last year continued to compromise commercial Web sites using well-known techniques like SQL injection, putting corporate data in danger, but also raising the likelihood that businesses will infect their own customers with Trojan horses and malware. This was the warning issued by security researchers at IBM‘s Internet Security Systems subsidiary, which published its security report for 2008 last week. One of the bright spots: spam decreased slightly following the shut down of a major distributor. In years past, the vast majority of security-related news and attention was related to Web browsers. Microsoft‘s Internet Explorer (IE), with a |
