Hackers continued adding billions to the cost of doing business on the Internet in the first half of 2004, despite security executives’ efforts to prevent malicious attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Motivated increasingly by money, the hackers are amassing legions of unwitting bot computers for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.<\/p>\n
They are also exploiting Web applications and mobile devices to steal identities through e-commerce scams, including phishing.<\/p>\n
These are some of the worrisome conclusions drawn by the Cupertino, Calif.-based security vendor Symantec Corp. in its semi-annual Internet Security Threat Report released today.<\/p>\n
“We’re no longer talking strictly about the male teenager with the low moral compass, or the hactivist, who defaces sites or uses malicious code or worms against those on one side in a political conflict,” said Vincent Weafer, senior director of Symantec Security Response.<\/p>\n
The daily volume of Internet-based worm attacks decreased in the first half of the year, according to Symantec.<\/p>\n
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