Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the information assets of some of the world's most well-known organizations, according to the findings of a recent global study by McAfee and Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) entitled "Underground Economies: Intellectual Capital and Sensitive Corporate Data Now the Latest Cybercrime Currency."
With firewalls, antivirus and other security mechanisms protecting corporate networks, how do attackers manage to penetrate enterprise computer systems? Simply by exploiting the weakest link in the security chain. One of the newest methods is tunneling in via employees' browsers using an attack known as "Man-in-the-Browser" (MitB).

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