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Network security is so yesterday. Yes, it's still important, but it's certainly not sufficient to protect your information. Sometime over the past 18 months or so, applications became the path of least resistance. The numbers are startling -- about 75% of new attacks are focused specifically at your web applications. It may be 65% or 80%. The real number doesn’t really matter -- it's clearly a majority of attacks now.
It doesn't matter which browser you use, there are holes in it. And the bad guys (and gals) are taking advantage of those holes. What's also new is that the attackers are not necessarily attacking you for your data (though if they can get it, they certainly will). They want to infect your web pages and use your servers to download Trojans and perform cross-site scripting attacks against your visitors.
That's right, the bad folks are now using you as a conduit to get at your visitors. Yes, it's pretty scary.
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