In the News: Web Attacks Won't Stop

According to this blog article from InfoWorld, the Web will continue to be a dangerous place to visit with even the best of sites compromised, and the threat being as simple as a "drive-by" meaning that just visiting a site could cause some malicious code to be implanted on your computer.

With well known sites with good reputations being victims themselves of bots, hackers and other malware being deposited on their sites, URL filtering alone won't solve the security problem.

While we focus on proxies in this blog, it's also important to remember that threats are beginning to enter the organization in other more unconventional means as this article reminds us. While the web may be the source of a lot of malware, physical devices are also a source of infection in computer networks. In 2007 there was a rash of digital picture frames that were shipped with the Trojan virus, and USB sticks (thumb drives) are vulnerable to this type of distribution of malware.

A good proxy remains important in keeping out the malware, but remember to be checking on the desktop as well.