Top thieves don't have to scale buildings, slice holes through floors and bypass laser alarms like some James Bond character. These days, it takes cybercriminals mere minutes to plunder businesses via the Internet through numerous little holes in website applications.
Dell SecureWorks saw an average of 42,000 attempted Web attacks per month across our 552 protected credit unions during 2010, and the majority of attacks were targeted at the credit unions' website applications.
Web applications that cause the most havoc are those that have a slot for a computer user to type information into, such as a search box or a space for a username or password.
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