Web server attacks and website defacements increase by 36 percent

Web server attacks and website defacements are up by 36 percent on last year with almost 400,000 attacks globally in 2004, according to a survey released by Infosecurity Europe and zone-h the independent server-side cybercrime observatory. The report found that currently 2,500 web servers are successfully hacked each day out of a total population of 45 million servers. This could increase to 80,000 hacks every day once VoiP/3G phones become commonplace.

Zone-H's report provides a comprehensive survey of server side attacks and trends and gives a glimpse of what the future may have in store.

Findings include:

* 392,545 recorded web server attacks for the year 2004

* 70,357 single defacements for the year 2004 totalling

* 322,188 mass defacements for the year 2004

* 186 special attacks on US governmental servers

* 3918 special attacks on worldwide compromised governmental domains

* 49 special attacks on US military servers

* 588,815 mass defacements over the years 2000 – 2004

* 194,905 single IP attacks over the years 2000 - 2004

www.infosec.co.uk
www.zone-h.org

•Date: 27th April 2005 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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