Hacking as a Business - More from the Frontlines
Following up on an earlier post about the increasingly business like model of hacking, the Journal News is also reporting the same findings.
According to a recent report from Websense, a San Diego
computer-security company, "True 'companies' have emerged, producing and selling toolkits and developing business-partner programs that enable less-technical, 'traditional' criminals to steal data and make money - lots of it."It used to be that the biggest threats came from e-mail infected with pernicious worms and viruses. No longer.
Ben-Itzhak of Finjan Software said the Web itself is spreading infections, thanks to tens of thousands of sites carrying code that is designed to steal information from visiting computers.
According to Websense, during the first half of 2006 there was a 100 percent increase in sites designed to install "crimeware" that could log keystrokes. Websense counted 16,663 sites that carried code for stealing passwords, including banking passwords.
Defense in depth strategies are critical here. Keep desktop and network security measures up to date, especially anti-virus, firewalls, spyware scanners and content filters.
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