Businesses are consumers’ worst security nightmare

Cyber-criminals are literally turning businesses against their own customers in the ongoing effort to steal consumers’ personal data.
The latest IBM 2008 X-Force Trend and Risk report has found that corporations are unwittingly putting their own customers at risk for cyber-criminal activity.
It says there has been an alarming increase in attacks using legitimate business sites as launch pads for scams against consumers.
The new X-Force report identifies two main trends from 2008 that show how criminals are targeting the masses through website attacks.
First, websites have become the Achilles’ heel for corporate IT security. Attackers are intensely focused on attacking web applications so they can infect end-user machines. Read More

Courtesy: Silicon Republic