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Article: Exploit Prevention Labs Releases Industry's First Exploit Prevalence Survey.
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- June 8, 2006
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Monthly Survey Identifies the Most Prevalent Web-Based Exploits
ATLANTA, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Exploit Prevention Labs, the leading developer of anti-exploit software, today released findings from its Exploit Prevalence Survey(TM), the industry's first monthly survey to measure the rise of Internet-borne exploits and zero-day attacks.
Exploits are a new tool being used by international cyber criminal organizations that take advantage of security vulnerabilities in common software applications such as Windows operating systems and browsers. Most infections occur by what's known as a drive-by download, in which malicious code is force-downloaded onto a ...