Archive: December, 2007
The Top Ten Security Threats for 2008 (Part 9) – Summary
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 [...]
Read moreThe Top Ten Security Threats for 2008 (Part 8 )
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 argue that the US presidential election of 2000, [...]
Read moreThe Top Ten Security Threats for 2008 (Part 7)
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 [...]
Read moreThe Top Ten Security Threats for 2008 (Part 6)
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 [...]
Read moreDue Diligence on CEP Vendors – Think Business Not Technology
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 [...]
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