Security News > 2011 > March > Web attackers deface gov't sites, steal from financials

http://www.csoonline.com/article/677028/web-attackers-deface-gov-t-sites-steal-from-financials By Robert Lemos CSO March 15, 2011 Driven by the hacktivism of the loose-knit Anonymous group, denial-of-service attacks surged to the top of the list of Web incidents, outpacing SQL injection and cross-site scripting, according to a survey of publicly disclosed attacks. The ongoing survey, known as the Web Hacking Incident Database, categorized 222 incidents in 2010 and found that attackers aimed to take down the Web sites in a third of the incidents, while defacement accounted for 15 percent of attacks and stealing information was the goal in 13 percent of incidents. Unsurprisingly, the popular goal of causing downtime meant that denial-of-service attacks accounted for about a third of attack types, followed by SQL injection (21 percent) and cross-site scripting (9 percent). In many industry reports, denial-of-service is not even on the list, but companies should worry about such brute-force tactics, says Ryan Barnett, a senior security researchers with security firm Trustwave's SpiderLabs, who manages the WHID project. "You need to re-prioritize because Web servers are actively being targeted with denial-of-service attacks," says Barnett. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/

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