Malware epidemic demands a united front

Cybercriminals are a busy bunch these days: stealing identities by the millions, grabbing credit and debit card account numbers, and waging a myriad other attacks on unwitting users, businesses and vulnerable websites. Their weapon of choice is the malware injection. Today, a page is infected every five seconds, triple the infection rate in 2007. Among the most vulnerable -- and the most lucrative for cybercriminals due to their enormous reach -- are trusted, popular sites with unpatched vulnerabilities. In mid-2007, iFrame and SQL injections of malware began infecting legitimate websites, ...