The number of web applications hacks grows

While the increasing number of companies attempts to open online services and their own representations in the Internet, the statistics of organization - Web Application Security Consortium shows that a quantity of web applications hacks steadily grows. If for a while back hackers for the most part organized the net attacks, purpose of which was breaking and obtaining of control over PC or server, then in the past year was noted a 70- percent increase in the number of hackings of Web sites, in comparison with the indices of 2004. Repeated attacks in the past year, in particular, underwent resource Sourceforge.net and social network MySpace.com. Among the basic reasons for negative tendency was resulted by the wide accessibility of software necessary for the attack, which any desiring can find with the aid of any online SE. Second reason - insufficient attention from the side of the developers of sites to questions of safety. The protection of site from the hacking is most critical for the banks, whose increasing number of their services available through the Internet. According to the recent statistics on Bank of America, in the past year the online services of the bank were used by 70 percent more clients, than in 2004. Let us recall that in the past year the largest banks Washington Mutual, Bank of America and Wells Fargo were forced to forego the use of PIN- codes with the realization of money orders and to reissue several thousand pay cards after computer was hacked and the client database was stolen, reports InformationWeek. With the embezzlement of confidential data encountered in the past year also the bank HSBC and broker company Scottrade. In this case for the circumspection of users themselves, that are frequently become the victims of fishing, also hard to rely. According to the results of the interrogation, carry ouied by bank TD Canada Trust among more than 700 clients, about the potential threat of fishing were informed only 30 percent of respondents. While the majority completely entrusts to bank in questions of the protection of information. Despite the fact that the attention to the problem gradually rises and companies increasingly more frequently use program and hardware of the protection of information, according to the estimations of experts, present yr promises to be not a bit not better than previous.