In The Curious Case of the Invulnerable Browser, Roger Grimes of Infoworld writes about the recent CanSecWest 2009 PWN2OWN contest where hackers pitted their skills against web browsers to see how quickly they could break into a computer. The prize was the computer itself. Roger says that the state of browser security is actually pretty good, but even if browsers were inpenetrable, the major source of computer breakins is users browsing to a web site that then infects their computer. [Read more…]
A hacking epidemic
…and I’m not talking about a hacking cough here.
Twice this week, clients or friends of mine have had their web sites hacked. One was hacked for the second time in a couple of weeks.
I can tell a lot from the forensic analysis as I clean up a site. A bit of CSI as it were.
There is one really big problem that contributes a lot to these hacking epidemics. [Read more…]