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The commercialization of the malware industry is a major trend we at Ars have followed, but the Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID)’s 2008 annual

report indicates that economics remains but one factor among many. Unlike most security reports, WHID samples a very small group of real-world, nonrandom

attacks. There were 57 such incidents in 2008, 49 in 2007, and a total of 294 from 1999-2008. The organization changed its inclusion criteria in 2006; the

current report only includes data from 2007 as reference material.

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