Security holes, malware spike in 2008
April 18, 2009 by Shanmuga
Filed under Recommended Reads, Security
"If you worry that the Internet is a scary place full of digital pickpockets and online identity thieves, your fears will be bolstered by the latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report released Tuesday. The report finds huge increases in the number of security holes in software and the number of Internet threats, particularly attacks in which browsers are hijacked and forced to download malicious programs as people surf the Web.
Even visiting trusted Web sites isn’t always safe. Most Web-based attacks target visitors to legitimate Web sites that have been compromised and that either serve up malicious content to the visitor or embed a malicious and invisible iframe on the page that surreptitiously redirects the user’s browser to another Web server under an attacker’s control, according to the report." – Content courtesy of Symantec: Security holes, malware spike in 2008 | Security – CNET News
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