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Researchers warn of Net chaos

08/07/2007 hackingnews.com

Summary
According to the security experts who met at the Black Hat digital defense conference in Las Vegas, the Internet is ripe for hacking chaos and rampant crime due to serious web application vulnerabilities. Attendees heard from US counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke, who blasted President George W Bush's lack of interest in enhancing the nation's cyber and software security. Dinis Cruz of Ounce Labs pointed out that the companies devoted to defending systems have massive security vulnerabilities of their own and most react to attacks instead of predicting and preventing them. Hackers are increasingly using software commonly used to hide and deliver malicious code to infect machines that can be scanned and reviewed, putting software developers under pressure to produce secure software to assure web application security.

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