The browser mafia

According to IBM, or rather the straight out of a gangster movie sounding IBM X-Force to be precise, your web browser is under siege from organised crime gangs. The 2007 X-Force Security report details something of an expected rise in the sophistication of attacks, and an increase in the rate at which victims computers are being compromised. There is, X-Force says, a ‘complex and sophisticated criminal economy’ which has developed to capitalise on known web vulnerabilities, and underground brokers are now delivering the necessary tools to enable those who would screw you over to do just that and avoid detection by way of obfuscation or camouflage.