Digg. Rogue SSL certificates ("case comodogate") The evolution of the web. Security Labs report - State of Internet Security, Q1-Q2 2009 - Websense Features. The first half of 2009 saw a number of big exploits and an escalation of attacks using the dynamic elements of popular Web 2.0 sites to infect users’ computers and perpetrate fraud.
Additionally, the Websense Security Labs found a massive increase in the number of malicious sites which increased 233 percent over the six month period. Attackers continued to use blended threats (spam emails with embedded URLs) to lure victims to spam and malicious Web sites with 85.6 percent of all unwanted emails in circulation during this period containing links to spam sites and/or malicious Web sites.
The rise of blended threats illustrates that Web security intelligence is a critical component of any email and data security strategy. Pierre Salinger syndrome at AllExperts.