Hackers make house calls
Source: BBC
If you spend a couple of hours per day on the net, the chances are that you have received the attention of a malicious hacker.
Almost all of the people recruited for a survey looking at the level of hacking on the net reported they had been visited by the software scanners that many hackers use to find vulnerable machines.
Participants were given a firewall to protect their machines and to record every visit by the software robots.
The firewalls also found that some of the machines taking part in the survey were already harbouring "trojans" that could have been used to launch remote web attacks or steal confidential information.
