Web Malware Exploded in 2006

[Rich Tate]

It should come as no surprise to anyone that malware saw significant increases over the last year. What is worse is that I imagine this trend will only continue.

The study, carried out by IBM's Internet Security Systems X-Force research team, found that web-targeted attacks and scripting vulnerabilities saw a massive increase with 7,247 vulnerabilities disclosed that year, 88 per cent of these were remotely exploitable by hackers.

 

[Rich Tate]

Registration may be required on this one guys, but a good article nonetheless.

 

[devil22]

It should come as no surprise to anyone that malware saw significant increases over the last year. What is worse is that I imagine this trend will only continue.

How do the security features of XP SP 2 and Vista factor into the equation? I mean are these all pre-XP SP 2 boxes getting exploited? If so, this may be a desperate measure on the part of the malware industry to own as many machines as possible before the window of malware is forever closed. Well more or less, it's possible but highly unlikely that flaws in the Vista+'s firewalls, hardware firewalls and net applications could sustain the present malware industry, but they will still happen eventually, but at hugely reduced rates. The article doesn't touch on this. My prediction is that by Vienna (2009?), malware will be virtually a dead industry because of XP SP 2 and Vista penetration, I know everyone else disagrees (people seem to think pessimism is smarter than optimism for some reason) but we'll see.