Company websites more open to hackers – study

IP Converge Data Services Inc., a subsidiary of ePLDT Inc. is urging companies to beef up their web security as a result of a 2017 study by cloud-based web application platform Imperva Incapsula that showed a whopping 212 percent increase in web vulnerabilities.

According to the research, a total of 14,082 web vulnerabilities have been recorded last year which is more than twice as much as the 6,615 recorded in 2016. The research further revealed that more than half of these vulnerabilities have a public exploit available to hackers while more than a third or 36 percent do not have an available solution such as a software upgrade workaround or software patch.