Hackers Target Corporate Websites
Spywares and Malwares are increasingly targeting corporate websites. The Internet is seeing a dramatic increase in the no. of web based threats. In the year 2008, there were more than 808,000 unique domains attacked and many of them were corporate websites, said a study by Symantec. It was initially a gaming site, pirated software sites that were used to send out viruses and introduce malware.
There are some new threats used by intruders were SQL injections infect mainstream websites. With this SQL injection hackers can make changes in the course code of a website and inject commands that compromise the site. Also the third party advertisements, Malvertisement is now being increasingly used to redirect user to malicious websites. Security experts say that 93% of email received is spam. Earlier employees used to get 2 or 3 spam emails a day but now its 200 to 300 per day.
