Increase in attacks on sites and servers last year
Publish date: 28 April 2005
Issue Number: 1078
Diary: Legalbrief eLaw
Category: Security
Hackers carried out around 400 000 more attacks on Web sites and servers last year than the year before, according to a study by Zone-H, a site where hackers report their activity.
The report says that on average around 2 500 Web servers were hacked every day last year, and that more than 70 000 Web defacements occurred during the year, reports ZDNet. Roberto Preatoni, founder of Zone-H, said that Web server attacks are likely to rocket as the adoption of 3G and VoIP services becomes increasingly common. \'[This] could even turn the phones into remote-controlled snooping devices, opening the way to massive industrial espionage incidents,\' he said. Full ZDNet report
