My day job is supporting this internet you speak of.

If you new the number of hacking attempts an average public web server incurs daily it would make you real nervous.
It's the mysterious ones that scare me.

Fer instance I know an exploit was found a couple months ago in Windows Servers, but the exploit was initially ran as a 'probe'. It simply inserted a hidden piece of code on websites that affected nothing on the site .. not visibly, not performance wise. Nothing. It was just there.
I also know 96,000 other websites (last I checked) could be found by searching for this snippet of code on Google .. so safe to say they had 'marked' 100,000 websites as 'I can get in here (been hacked)'.
Many were institutions and other 'gov type' websites.
As time goes by I expect that number to dwindle, since I figger if WE saw it, other alert web guys will also.
I believe we've alleviated the issue (no sign of it since implementing the fix) but you don't really know for sure until something happens to the other sites (the payload is triggered).

Yeah, that's the type of stuff that goes on, and I deal with.
In between I get to program software, which is much more fun. Build the protection in before it ever goes public in the first place. Compiling for the win!
/it's most often some plugin or add-on that gets compromised .. gotta be careful.

I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
Make your sound your own!