Phishing, SQL Injection Attacks Surged in 2009

“Hackers continued to have great success taking advantage of
vulnerabilities in applications, such as Adobe Systems’ Acrobat,
and Web browsers from Mozilla and Microsoft to compromise
unsuspecting users’ machines or data, according to IBM’s annual
X-Force Trend and Risk Report.

“That’s in spite of an overall decline in the number of new
software vulnerabilities last year, IBM said.

“Big Blue’s security research and development group reported
that in 2009, the total number of bugs in document readers and
multimedia applications surged 50 percent, leading to a dramatic
increase in phishing attacks targeting banks and other financial
services providers during the second half of the year.’

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