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Popular websites breeding hackers, infers Websense
By
ChannelTimes Staff
Mumbai, Jul 31, 2008 1320 hrs IST
Websense Security Labs has come up with its latest report on Internet security. The report claims to have put 60% of the top 100 popular websites into the category of malicious content providers.
As per the report, these sites, mainly comprising social networking, Web 2.0 and search sites, represent the majority of all web page views and are the most popular target for attackers. With their large user base, good reputations and support for Web 2.0 applications, these sites provide malicious code authors with abundant opportunity.
More than 75% of the websites were actually sites with seemingly good reputations that had been compromised by attackers. According to the report, 29% of malicious web attacks included data-stealing code, demonstrating that attackers are after essential information and data. Besides, more than 76.5% of all emails in circulation in the past 6 months contained links to spam sites and/or malicious websites.
"Today attackers are overwhelmingly forgoing creating their own malicious sites, and targeting legitimate websites that have a built in base of visitors. There s an element of trust in the Web 2.0 world that the websites we frequent every day are safe, but attackers are taking advantage of the good reputations. Most web security and URL filtering technology today heavily rely on a websites reputation, but this method is outdated," said Dan Hubbard, CTO, Websense.
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