The Internet is the new Wild West reports IBM consultant (TechWorld)

[Adam Dicker]

Paranoid? Perhaps everyone is out to get you "The Internet has finally taken on the characteristics of the wild west where no one is to be trusted," said Sukhdev Singh, senior security consultant and regional X-Force expert, IBM Internet security systems, IBM ASEAN.

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[Commerce]

Thanks for pointing this one out, it was an interesting read and another reason to remind folks to keep their firewalls up to date and their infrastructure software patched.

For those of you here who "just host 'cause I'm not technical", make sure your Hosting provider is keeping up with the times. After all, if your sites ends up on some blacklist because they got hacked and are now problem children, it means that you lose money. You don't need to be technical to get that one.

The attack vectors used by the dark side are getting more creative every day. However, I think these attackers are generally pragmatic and will generally want to go after the low hanging fruit (unsecured, misconfigured and unpatched systems / networks = low hanging fruit) first. Lesson: Don't be in the group that the dark side views as low hanging fruit.

-Commerce