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Report: Hackers Getting Faster at Coooking Up New Attacks

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The bad guys on the Internet are narrowing the time frame they need to unleash computer attacks that take advantage of publicly disclosed security holes, new research shows. More and more of these attacks are coming within 24 hours after a vulnerability is disclosed. That means security flaws are being exploited in Web browsers, computer operating systems and other programs before many people even have had time to learn there’s a problem, according to IBM’s latest Internet Security Systems X-Force report

by Jordan Robertson

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This entry was posted on Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 8:15 am by Raquel Rios and is filed under News

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