Web filters key in biannual reports
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
As a number of IT security vendors and analysts prepare their half-year reports on the dominant threats facing businesses and consumers, website instability is a key item on the agenda.
Such is the suggestion of NetworkWorld, which indicated that the early months of 2008 will be remembered for widespread SQL injection vulnerabilities which targeted hundreds of thousands of websites and left visitors open to attack.
A report from the magazine covering the event earlier in the year noted that the attacks seemed to have originated in Eastern Europe.
One researcher told the publication that up to 60 per cent of the world's 100 most popular websites had been hosting or distributing malicious code.
NetworkWorld also explained that for the first time, open source software has been found to be vulnerable to these and other attacks, joining the major proprietary software vendors on lists of top producers of vulnerabilities.
Another key network security issue to be addressed was the growing number of vulnerabilities identified on a host of social network sites.
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