Thousands of legitimate Web sites hacked over the weekend
CIO.com is reporting the latest in one of the fastest growing trends facing our industry – web hacks.
According to the article, thousands of legitimate web sites were hacked over the weekend. Malicious scripts were inserted and legitimate organizations’ websites were taken control by criminals. The script re-routed users to a malicious site, which in turn downloads and launches a multi-exploit hacker toolkit that perpetuated the problem.
This is just another reason why it’s imperitive to know all of the scripts running on your site, as well as any vulnerabilities your web software has to hacks. Even if you’re just a small business with a simple website – you could be part of an attack like this, and you could be on the hook for thousands of dollars in clean up costs.
That’s just not worth it – especially when monitoring starts at about a dollar a day. Don’t be the next headline.
Tags: CIO, Cross Site Scripting, hack, hacker toolkit, malicious script, redirect, web hacks, Web Security, Xss
