Websense: Hacker Kit Use Surges

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via TechWeb News.

[snip]

About 1 in every 6 sites set up by criminals to steal information is
created with hacking-for-dummies-style "toolkits," a security
researcher said Tuesday.

"About 15 percent of malicious sites designed to steal information have
kit code or a derivation of kit code," said Dan Hubbard, the vice
president of security research at San Diego-based Websense.

Although Websense only began counting sites that use code from a
toolkit late last year, the ratio is a major uptick, added Hubbard.
Near the end of 2005, only 5 percent of the sites in a smaller sampling
were using kit code.

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More:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/193101569

- ferg


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