Endless Exploits
Now there is the rapidly expanding universe of Web based applications for hackers to exploit. A recent study by security vendor Acunetix claimed that as many as 70% of the 3,200 corporate and non-commercial organization Web sites its free Web based scanner has examined since January 2006, contained serious vulnerabilities and were at immediate risk of being hacked.
A total of 210,000 vulnerabilities were found, the company said, for an average of some 66 vulnerabilities per web site ranging from potentially serious ones such as SQL injections and cross-site scripting, to relatively minor ones such as easily available directory listings.
“Companies, governments and universities are bound by law to protect our data,” said Kevin Vella, vice president of sales and operations at Acunetix. “Yet web application security is, at best, overlooked as a fad.”
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