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New hacker threat for 'good reputation' web monitoring | | 2008/08/01 | | According to a report from internet security firm Websense, sites with good reputations will be subject more sophisticated attacks from hackers in the future.
Around 75 per cent of sincerely-run websites were subject to malicious attention in the first half of 2008, a rise of 50 per cent on the last six months of 2007.
Trusted companies with reputations to protect must be able to scan, analyse and categorise its web's content at a moment's notice, according to Carl Leonard who is the threat research manager at Websense.
Mr Leonard told computerweekly.com: "It is no longer sufficient to have a purely reputation-based, signature-based, or URL-based security system.
"They must be able to check sites are clean in real time," he added.
The report also highlighted another trend in that email spammers have compromised the CAPTCHA response testing safeguards.
Email providers like Windows Live mail and Gmail are seen as vulnerable as hackers are able to bypass filters having opened legitimate accounts.
Mr Leonard went on to say that web users should be made aware of the increased threat, and that improved CAPTCHA systems should be realised as a matter of urgency. |
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