Web browsers under siege from organized crime

A report issued by Help Net Security describes findings IBM released yesterday of the 2007 X-Force Security report. The report details the disturbing rise in the level of sophistication of attacks by cybercriminals on Web browsers throughout the world.

IBM says that, by attacking the browsers of users, the criminals are now stealing identities and controlling consumers' computers at a rate never seen before. The X-Force has been cataloguing, analyzing and researching vulnerability disclosures for 11 years.

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