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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master
NRT-0119 Computer Security Trends:
The latest research report from McAfee's Avert Labs paints a frightening picture for enterprise IT administrators and end-users, predicting continued maturation of cyber-crime and the technological means being used to carry out external attacks. According to McAfee's semi-annual Sage journal, a roundup of the company's ongoing security research, everything from spam to spyware will become more dangerous over the course of 2007 as hackers look for new ways to exploit end users' machines in their quest for fast cash. Among the specific trends outlined in the report are expectations for the continued growth of botnets with the cooperation among hackers adding to the problem via group efforts to develop and refine threat code in the same manner that open-source contributors work in a community. McAfee expects that 2007 will also be the year when attackers truly begin aiming their work at smartphones. They say VoIP systems will also see an increasing volume of threats, with SPIT (SPam over Internet Telephony) helpint to create new opportunities for hackers to market the end-user data they gather to telemarketers.
(InfoWorld 10APR07)
Last Modified: Saturday, 14-Apr-2007 09:25:06 EDT