Research: Botnets, the Most Prevalent Threat in the Enterprise

Botnets are the most significant source of malicious Web traffic for enterprises on the Internet, according to new research from ZScaler’s ThreatLabz. Over the past 30 days, botnets have accounted for nearly 80 percent of the security blocks within ZScaler’s network. In a distant second place amo...

Compromised WordPress Sites Redirecting to Black Hole Exploit Kit Servers

The Black Hole exploit kit is really becoming a serious pain in the neck for people trying to use the Internet. At some point, it may become easier to start a list of the URLs that aren’t hosting the exploit kit, rather than the ones that are. For the time being, the latest entry in the latter...

How Mass SQL Injection Attacks Became an Epidemic

In the first few months of 2009, security researchers began seeing signs of a new piece of malware that was somewhat baffling to them. It didn’t act like other Trojans or rootkits and try to bury itself on an infected machine and try to do nasty stuff like deleting registry keys or copying the...