PCMag.Com - Web applications are attacked by hackers roughly once every two minutes on average, while automated assaults on websites and databases can number 25,000 attacks in an hour, or seven per second, according to new findings released by data security firm Imperva Monday.The study "monitored and categorized more than 10 million individual attacks across the Internet," Imperva said in a statement. One key finding was the confirmation that automated attacks on websites are increasing as a percentage of all cyber attacks.
"The level of automation in cyber attacks continues to shock us. The sheer volume of attacks that can be carried out in such a short period of time is almost unimaginable to most businesses," said Amichai Shulman, Imperva's CTO and lead researcher. More
