Posted on December 2nd, 2007 by Tim Bass
Another top ten cybersecurity threat for 2008:
— Criminal use of botnets and botnet-like technologies.
One of most profitable criminal enterprises on the Internet are botnets. Botnets are used by criminals to blast out phishing scams, spam, malware. and denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Many security experts believe that botnets are now a greater threat than viruses and worms. Botnets can have hundreds of thousands of nodes under the control of the botherder, making botnets [...]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2007 by Tim Bass
Marching forward with the top ten cybersecurity threats for 2008, another critical cybersecurity threat for 2008 is:
— Cyberbullying, cyberterrorism and electronic violence.
US researchers have warned that bullies have moved from the real-world to the cyberworld targeting teens with abuse and violent e-mail, social networking postings, text messaging, and online chat. The number of children ages 10 to 17 that [...]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2007 by Tim Bass
In another one of his excellent blog posts, Financial Due Diligence, Marc Adler mentions a New York Times article that describes the same effects on software companies I discussed a few weeks ago in The Subprime Crisis and the Impact on the CEP Market.
Marc blogged that some CEP “pure-play” companies have been laying off their employees due to the current crisis [...]
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