A New Website Gets An Infection Every 5 Seconds

By Alan Harten

According to IT security company Sophos over 380,000 new webpages have some kind of infection.

More worrying is that this is in just the last three weeks.

They say that 90% of these pages have problems caused by hacking techniques such as SQL Injection.

The company is promoting its solution, WebAlert, that warns site owners if their pages show the presence of malicious code.

For surfers, just opening the page can lead to all kinds of problems, and the company is at pains to point out that it’s not just small businesses or personal sites that are at risk.

Over the last few months there have been several well publicised incidents involving large corporate sites, such as Sony PlayStation, BusinessWeek, Yahoo, as well as UK government sites.