If you use FileZilla as your FTP client software you are in for a big surprise!
Beware: FileZilla Doesn’t Protect Your Passwords!!
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2009 is the year of malware attacks that use stolen FTP credentials to infect legitimate web sites. Hundreds of thousands websites have been hacked this way and suffered from hidden iframe injections, Gumblar, redirections to bogus anti-virus sites, etc.
The success of those attacks is based on the fact that a significant percentage of web surfer are webmasters and site owners themselves.
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