So in 2001, he started WhiteHat Security to see if he could solve the problem.

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WhiteHat Security is a leader in protecting corporate networks from all sorts of nastiness.

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So to get more insight on the issues, I talked to the folks at WhiteHat Security, which is a leader in providing security for websites.

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Jeremiah Grossman is CTO of WhiteHat Security.

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Whitehat Security's Grossman speculates that machines running that software were targeted because they allow several commands to be injected in a single user input field on the sites they host, making those sites easier to hijack.

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