April 26, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hackers are focusing more of their attention on Web servers and military and government sites were no exception, according to Zone-H (zone-h.org), a cyber-crime and Internet security tracking organization.
Zone-H said attacks on Web servers increased by over 33 percent from 2004. A total of 400,000 attacks were tracked ? some of which tried to take over a server for criminal use, and others designed to “tag” or deface Web sites.
“The collection of this information on cyber-crime provides data for the evolution of trends and the definition of techniques, allowing system administrators to test their own servers and close the security holes,” says Roberto Preatoni, founder of Zone-H.
