Administrator Lite Posted July 30, 2008 Administrator Share Posted July 30, 2008 Surfers who think they can avoid cyber-crime by sticking to reputable websites are fooling themselves.Sixty of the 100 most popular websites have hosted malware of various kinds at some time in the past six months, according to a recent study.The latest State of the Internet Report (PDF) from Websense warns that many popular social networking, search engine and web 2.0 sites have suffered temporary infection with cyber-tricks such as data-stealing code and hidden redirects."Attackers are forgoing creating their own malicious sites and targeting legitimate sites that have a built-in base of visitors," said Dan Hubbard, chief technology officer at Websense."There is an element of trust in the web 2.0 world that the sites we frequent every day are safe, but attackers are taking advantage of the 'good reputations' of sites to launch attacks."The validity of the URL does not matter any more, according to Hubbard. "It is all about the dynamic content that is served up on the page," he said. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rKAnjEL Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 This kind of people must be seriously demented, why else would anyone do things like that? :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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