Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Tim Bass
Continuing my list of the top ten cybersecurity threats for 2008, here is another looming threat:
— Spying by governments, industry and criminals.
Spying, also known as espionage, is the crime of illegally gathering secret or confidential information about a government or commercial entity. This also includes stealing proprietary information and intellectual property. Often espionage directed toward as individual is grouped into the less malicious sounding category of privacy crimes; however, [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Tim Bass
Starting on my next five top cyber security threats for 2008, here is another serious threat:
— Criminal manipulation and subversion of financial markets.
In one of our earlier posts, I mentioned the subversion of democratic political processes as a top ten cybersecurity threat for 2008, which included information warfare techniques applied to elections and other political processes.
The top ten [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Tim Bass
I have now posted five of the top ten cybersecurity security threats for 2008, in no particular order (yet). Before moving on to the next five, here is a summary of what I have offered so far:
— Cyber masquerading to abuse, attack, blackmail, bully, extort, or molest.
— Password and identity theft from phishing, spyware, malware and theft [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Tim Bass
Five down, five to go, in our top ten cybersecurity threats for 2008, after this one. I will reorder these information security threats later. Here is another top information security threat for 2008:
— Subversion of democratic political processes.
Regardless of your political orientation, no one can [...]
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