IBM announced results from its annual 2008 X-Force Trend and Risk report, which found that corporations are unwittingly putting their own customers at risk for cybercriminal activity. With an alarming increase in attacks using legitimate business sites as launching pads for attacks against consumers, cybercriminals are literally turning businesses against their own customers in the ongoing effort to steal consumers' personal data.
The new X-Force report identifies two main trends from 2008 that show how criminals are targeting the masses through Web site attacks.
For more security trends and predictions from IBM, including graphical representations of security statistics, please access the full "2008 X-Force Trends and Risk Report" at: www.ibm.com/services/us/iss/xforce/trendreports (US)
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