Trusted Websites Are Being Hacked and Don't Even Know It
Robert McMillan writes on InfoWorld:
It's getting harder and harder to know who to trust on the World Wide Web, according to online safety advocates StopBadware.org.More here.
On Tuesday, the group released its 2007 Trends in Badware report [.pdf], saying the bad guys are finding new ways to place their malicious software on our computers -- often by compromising Web sites that we trust.
With the help of one of its sponsor companies, Google, StopBadware maintains a list of 200,000 Web sites that are known to be associated with malicious downloads. According to Max Weinstein, a project manager with StopBadware, more than half of these sites have been hacked and don't even realize it.
In fact, this move to delivering malicious software on legitimate sites has been a disturbing trend over the past year, he said.
posted by Fergie @ 10/03/2007 01:58:00 PM
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