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Websense Inc. has released its top 10 security predictions that it believes we will see in 2008 with content-based threats topping the list.
“The basic theme out of all of these [predictions] is the continued evolution of the web as an attack vector versus e-mail,” said Dan Hubbard, senior director of security and technology research with Websense.
Here are Websense’s top 10 security predictions for 2008:
1. Olympics — new cyber attacks, phishing and fraud
2. Malicious SPAM invades blogs, search engines, forums and Web sites
3. Attackers use Web’s ‘weakest links’ to launch attacks
4. Number of compromised Web sites will surpass number of created malicious sites
5. Cross platform Web attacks — Mac, iPhone popularity spurs increase
6. Rise in targeted Web 2.0 special interest attacks — hackers targeting specific groups of people based on interests and profile
7. Morphing JavaScript to evade anti-virus scanners
8. Data concealment methods increase in sophistication
9. Global law enforcement will crack down on key hacker groups and individuals
10. ‘Vishing’ and voice spam will combine and increase
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