Study Finds Huge Rise in Malware This Year

Study Finds Huge Rise in Malware This Year19th July 2008, 2:30 pm

Malware has risen by a staggering 278 percent in the first half of 2008, thanks in part to the large number of Web sites compromised last month--so says a new study by ScanSafe. And it warns that things are only going to get worse--especially after security researcher Dan Kaminsky goes public with details about a 20-year-old DNS vulnerability he discovered.

The ScanSafe Global Threat report is a study of more than 60 billion Web requests that ScanSafe has scanned, as well as 600 million Web threats it has blocked from January through June 2008 on behalf of corporate customers worldwide.

The report found that Web-based malware increased 278 percent during this period. This was in part due to large Web sites such as Wal-Mart, Business Week, Ralph Lauren Home, and Race for Life being compromised in June by SQL injection attacks................

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Re: Study Finds Huge Rise in Malware This Year20th July 2008, 1:31 am

Yea. I expected that too.

Re: Study Finds Huge Rise in Malware This Year20th July 2008, 8:14 am

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Re: Study Finds Huge Rise in Malware This Year20th July 2008, 11:11 pm

Well said agent!

Study Finds Huge Rise in Malware This Year

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