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Top 10 Security Trends - eITplanet.com
Botnets, breaches, spam and virtualization all rank. Got your own top 10?
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From the mothership...
Top 10 Security Trends - eITplanet.com
Botnets, breaches, spam and virtualization all rank. Got your own top 10?
OUCh!Quote:
This meant that 70.5 percent of all email was spam
I assume they dont host any websites anymore :)Quote:
Bots perpetrate a wide variety of malicious activity. Bots knocked Estonia off the online map
Going to google this one :)Quote:
The best example was when Wabi Sabi Labi was introduced. It offered an auction-style system for selling vulnerability information to the highest bidder. The resulting controversy sparked much discussion about the ethics of such practices. Regardless of the rights and wrongs, look for more of this kind of activity in 2008.
70.5%? That seems low. I thought the numbers were higher, 80-90%? Seriously, if we eliminated most of the spam, we'd probably see speeds increase. And it's interesting that Spyware doesn't make the cut.
Are we seeing less spyware because people have stopped using browsers that act as conduits for it (e.g., IE)?
Yes, I thought that spam e-mail was a much higher percentage than that; also no mention of spamming websites, blogs and the like which I have noticed a considerable increase in.
Also "breaches" isn't really a security trend in my book. I strongly suspect that current disclosure requirements and more publicity has just caused what has been going on for years to surface :D
Indeed. Although I would question who is more likely to be affected by "spamming websites, blogs and the like": the individual or the corporation? The list is for the corporation and I don't see too many organizations with public blogs that get hugely affected or, if they are, they may lump it in with general web annoyances.Quote:
Originally Posted by nihil
I hope you will permit me a little cynicism Msm?
These lists and reports do tend to aim at the Corporate, because that is where the money for preventative software is to be made?
Now, I have no objection to that per se, and I appreciate that your average personal blogger/website owner isn't likely to pay out for commercial software if they can at all help it.
But, what about small/sole traders?............ there are gazillions more of them than corporates............. is this a whole new market waiting to be exploited? And a new type of security software?
Go for it guys.................
More info Nihil! What would you suggest or are you secretly brainstorming behind the scenes?Quote:
And a new type of security software?
:)
"The best example was when Wabi Sabi Labi was introduced."
Sounds like a strange Asian sexual technique. Was I the only one who jumped to that thought?
<sigh>...I need to get out more.
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