Two years after their first appearance in the Netcraft SSL Survey, Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates now make up more than 1% of all SSL certificates on the Web.
In the February 2009 survey we received responses from
215,675,903 sites. This reflects a phenomenal monthly gain of more than 30 million sites, bringing the total up by more than 16%.
A new wave of phishing attacks against eBay is exploiting a clever combination of wildcard DNS records and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities to use other people's websites to help steal credentials from victims.