Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Tim Bass
As promised, here is the final draft of my perspective on the top ten cybersecurity security threats for 2008.
I reviewed many prior “top ten” threat lists and noticed most of them accidentally confuse vulnerabilities and threats, listing vulnerabilities as threats. In my review, I could not find any “top ten” threat lists which attempted to use, or follow, the security [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Tim Bass
Here is my final entry for the 2008 list of top ten cybersecurity threats:
— Sabotage, theft and other attacks by disgruntled employees and insiders.
The Computer Security Institute and FBI conduct an annual CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey of U.S. corporations, government agencies, financial institutions, and universities. Eightly percent of the information security professionals who responded indicated that disgruntled [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Tim Bass
Here is my ninth entry on the top ten cybersecurity threats for 2008:
— Cyberspace vandalism.
Cyberspace vandalism is the defacement or destruction of visible web sites or less visible computer systems (for example files). Dangerous acts of vandalism are by often politically or antisocially motivated criminals who break into a web site, steal or destroy files if they can, and then leave a [...]
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