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...Windows may also be affected. For the attacker to launch a successful attack, they need to lure the victim to a malicious web page or website they have compromised. The exploit also requires JavaScript to exploit Internet Explorer. The... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/23/239421/Internet-Explorer-zero-day-exploit-on-BugTraq.htm

...and have become one of the most dangerous tools cybercriminals use. These attacks can target anyone who visits a malicious web page, the report said, and are delivered to users through spam, phishing, social networks and even through redirects... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/02/238375/ddos-attacks-on-the-increase-mcafee-report-warns.htm

Security Software Brief: Malicious Web site poses as Google A security vendor is warning Web surfers to beware of a malicious Web site that poses as a legitimate Google page. According... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/10/12/219126/brief-malicious-web-site-poses-as-google.htm

...untenable risk landscape. According to the X-Force report, there has been a 508% increase in the number of malicious web links discovered in the first half of 2009. This problem is no longer limited to malicious domains or untrusted... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/08/26/237454/ibm-report-shows-leap-in-malicious-websites.htm

...protected from attacks from other malicious Web sites. Also, IE7's rewritten...because hackers can construct malicious Web sites in such a way that they...cause a buffer overflow. If the malicious Web site had managed to place executable... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/07/18/225614/securing-microsoft-internet-explorer-7.htm

...results could be poison, warns Sophos Searches for news of the death of actor Patrick Swayze are likely to include malicious web pages that will trigger fake virus warnings, says security firm Sophos. This comes just days after Symantec warned... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/09/15/237722/video-swayze-search-results-could-be-poison-warns.htm

...malicious JavaScript file. When a user unknowingly visits a compromised site, they are re-directed to a series of malicious web pages that attempt to exploit multiple client-side vulnerabilities in a number of applications, including Internet... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/01/11/228884/us-cert-warns-of-widespread-sql-injection-attacks.htm

...messages a day, about 90% of the world's e-mail traffic, to drive traffic to both legitimate sales pitches and malicious web sites, it said. Cisco said the rise of social networking has made it easier to launch worm attacks. "People... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/15/236909/cybercriminals-adopt-business-strategies.htm

...26 September a patch addressing the Vector Markup Language (VML) flaw, which digital miscreants have targeted via malicious Web sites, including several pornographic sites based in Russia. The attacks prompted several security organisations... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/09/27/218727/microsoft-patches-ie-security-flaw-early.htm

...internet service provider following allegations that it hosted spam-serving botnets, phishing websites, and illegal malicious web content. The move followed a complaint by the US Federal Trade Commission. According to the FTC, the defendant... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/06/08/236345/court-shuts-down-rogue-isp.htm

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...Reports 671 Percent Increase of Malicious Web Sites; 95 Percent of User Generated...Labs found that 37 percent of malicious Web attacks included data-stealing...contained links to spam sites and/or malicious Web sites. -- In June alone... http://www.zibb.com/article/5525558/NEW+RESEARCH+Websense+Security+Labs+Reports+Percent+Increase+of+Malicious+Web+Sites+Percent+of+User+Generated+Comments+to+Blogs+Are+Spam+or+Malicious