A new flavor of an old-school Web attack was responsible for compromising more than 500,000 Websites last year. An automated form of SQL injection using botnets emerged as the popular method of hacking Websites. The report also found that attackers increasingly are targeting a Website’s customers rather than the sensitive information in the database. Government, security, law enforcement organizations represented the biggest sector suffering from these attacks (32 percent), the report says. Most of the attacks were Web defacements (24 percent), followed by the theft of sensitive information (19 percent), planting malware (16 percent), imposing monetary loss (13 percent)”]