University of California - San Diego computer scientists have built and successfully tested a tool designed to detect when websites are hacked by monitoring the activity of email accounts associated with them.
The researchers were surprised to find that almost 1 percent of the websites they tested had suffered a data breach during their 18-month study period, regardless of how big the companies' reach and audience are.
"No one is above this -- companies or nation states -- it's going to happen; it's just a question of when," said Alex C. Snoeren, the paper's senior author and a professor of computer science at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San Diego.
Given that there are more than one billion sites on the Internet, this means tens of millions of websites could be breached every year, said Joe DeBlasio, one of Snoeren's Ph.D. students and the paper's first author.
The researchers found that popular sites were just as likely to be hacked as unpopular ones. This means that out of the top-1,000 most visited sites on the Internet, ten are likely to be hacked every year:
https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/88576-computer-scientists-develop-tool-to-tell-if-website-is-breached
The researchers were surprised to find that almost 1 percent of the websites they tested had suffered a data breach during their 18-month study period, regardless of how big the companies' reach and audience are.
"No one is above this -- companies or nation states -- it's going to happen; it's just a question of when," said Alex C. Snoeren, the paper's senior author and a professor of computer science at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San Diego.
Given that there are more than one billion sites on the Internet, this means tens of millions of websites could be breached every year, said Joe DeBlasio, one of Snoeren's Ph.D. students and the paper's first author.
The researchers found that popular sites were just as likely to be hacked as unpopular ones. This means that out of the top-1,000 most visited sites on the Internet, ten are likely to be hacked every year:
https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/88576-computer-scientists-develop-tool-to-tell-if-website-is-breached