Two out of every three websites are open to cyber attacks, said US researcher Gartner. John Pescatore, senior security analyst at Gartner, said website intruders could at the very least change the content and in some cases access information such as customers' credit card details.. . .
Two out of every three websites are open to cyber attacks, said US researcher Gartner. John Pescatore, senior security analyst at Gartner, said website intruders could at the very least change the content and in some cases access information such as customers' credit card details.

"The defacement of websites is a very common occurrence," he said. "More than 5000 websites were hacked by August of this year."

Speaking at Gartner's European Symposium/ITXpo in Cannes this week, Pescatore said there are two different types of security threat: random and targeted.

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