Malware on legitimate web sites is a growth industry!

In a security report entitled A comparative look at the state of web security, May 2007-May 2008, released on Thursday, ScanSafe found 68 per cent of all internet-based malware was now being hosted on legitimate sites.

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Techniques to compromise websites, including Iframe and SQL injection attacks, are becoming more ubiquitous, ScanSafe warned.

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Landesman said: "Over the last year malware authors have moved away from direct attacks - attacks in which they directly interact with victims, via social engineering for example - to indirect attacks accomplished through compromised websites."

More people are becoming more ...

If you notice some peculiarity or disruptions in the blog, do not mistake this blog for twitter.

Actually I'm tweaking the Serendipity templates to serve validated application/xhtml+xml and to add some RDFa/microformats to the mix.

Recommended Firefox 3.0pre-compatible plugins for the day are:

• Operator: Operator leverages microformats and other semantic data that are already available on many web pages to provide new ways to interact with web services.
• Dublin Core NeViewer 0.2: Displays Dublin Core Metadata embedded into the section HEAD of an XHTML Web page using the META and LINK elements.

UPDATE 2 ...