Apps at risk

Communications News, March, 2004

According to a four-year study by Web-Cohort, 92% of Web applications are vulnerable to some form of hacker attacks, WebCohort tested more than 250 Web applications, including e-commerce, online banking, enterprise collaboration and supply chain management. the vulnerability assessments concluded that the most common vulnerabilities were cross-site scripting (80%), SOL injection (62%) and parameter tampering (60%). While these typos of hacking attacks are common, most enterprises have not adequately secured Web sites, applications and servers against them. Hackers still can access proprietary and customer data, shut down Web sites and servers, defraud businesses, and introduce serious legal liability without being stopped or, in many cases, even detected. For more information from

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