Study: 70% Of Web Sites Are Hackable
Of course, this story sounds like a bit of self-promotion for the company that conducted the study, but it does highlight a problem that seems to be growing.
In fact, only recently, malicious code which was planted on the Miami Dolphins website just prior to the Super Bowl (as well as the CDC) illustrated this trend.
Sharon Gaudin writes on InformationWeek:
About 70% of Web sites contain vulnerabilities that put them at risk of being hacked, according to a new study issued on Tuesday.More here.
A year ago, Acunetix, a Web site security company, began scanning sites, both business and nonbusiness, looking for vulnerabilities. Out of 3,200 sites scanned, 70% had vulnerabilities with either a medium- or high-risk rating, according to an Acunetix announcement. Company analysts say there is an "extremely high probability" of hackers finding and using the vulnerabilities to steal information.
posted by Fergie @ 2/13/2007 10:44:00 AM
1 Comments:
So the vendor survey says 70% of sites are begging to be hacked … An independent security expert's own $1,000 says that percentage is a crock.
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