Acunetix recently reported that:

… on average, 91% of the Web sites scanned contained some form of Web site vulnerability. Those exploits ranged from the more serious, such as SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting, to more minor ones, like local path disclosure or directory listing.

Out of 3,200 sites scanned, 70% had vulnerabilities with either a medium- or high-risk rating

I would like to say that I can’t believe that the numbers are that high, but the reality is that it doesn’t surprise me.

Why?

Three main factors:

• web servers (and web applications) have, and will continue to have vulnerabilities which can be exploited by hackers
• existing conventional firewalls are almost useless in preventing these attacks
• there’s an extreme lack of people who understand security from a hacking perspective

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In order to assist you in digging out content that’s buried deep in the abyss of your hard disk folders, many players have come to market to try to be the dominant desktop search provider.

The main players are: Google Desktop Search, Yahoo Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search, and Copernic Desktop Search.

I have used them all, and in the end I chose to use Google Desktop Search, personally believing it to be superior to the others that I had tested.

About a month after Google Desktop Search came out, hackers managed to find a way to completely take over your system and get access to any of the information that had been indexed on your computer via a vulnerability in the Google Desktop Search program. As soon as I heard about this, I uninstalled Google Desktop Search from my machine and went back to using some of the other desktop search tools.
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