The web is not a safe place to be these days!

SANS - Internet Storm Center - Cooperative Cyber Threat Monitor And Alert System - Current Infosec News and Analysis

Interesting to see new categories of attacks gaining in popularity, as highlighted in this handlers' diary entry.

Adding malicious content to hosted websites is a handy way for malware authors to ensure that their code will be executed, rather than relying on e-mails with links which (hopefully) are a less useful vector (Surely by now a decent percentage of Internet users don't go around clicking links sent in e-mail....)

Also another good example (as if anyone needed more) of why patching is critical to protecting PC's at the moment.

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SOx increases fraud Risk?!! is the next entry in this blog.

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