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SANS, a US-based educational body lists the 10 most dangerous cyber threats.
The list reveals growing technical expertise and professionalism among hackers acting for financially or politically motivated paymasters. IT bosses need to respond by setting up cyber defenses in depth, limiting access to information on a need-to-know basis, and educating users."
- Said Timothy Mullen, vice-president of consulting services at UK-based NGS Software. Definitely, attackers are targeting popular, trusted websites where users have an expectation of effective security, while at the same time, using insecure websites to infect the browsers of visitors with viruses, Trojans and key loggers.
SANS Institute Top 10 Cyber Threats for 2008...read on...
1. Increasingly sophisticated website attacks that exploit browser vulnerabilities
2. Increasing sophistication and effectiveness in botnets
3. Cyber espionage efforts by well-resourced organizations to extract large amounts of data for economic and political purposes
4. Mobile phone threats, especially against iPhones, Google's Android phones, and voice over IP systems
5. Insider attacks
6. Advanced identity theft from persistent bots
7. Increasingly malicious spyware
8. Web application security exploits
9. Increasingly sophisticated social engineering to provoke insecure behavior
10. Supply chain attacks that infect consumer devices
A more detailed description of the above threats can be found here.
2. Increasing sophistication and effectiveness in botnets
3. Cyber espionage efforts by well-resourced organizations to extract large amounts of data for economic and political purposes
4. Mobile phone threats, especially against iPhones, Google's Android phones, and voice over IP systems
5. Insider attacks
6. Advanced identity theft from persistent bots
7. Increasingly malicious spyware
8. Web application security exploits
9. Increasingly sophisticated social engineering to provoke insecure behavior
10. Supply chain attacks that infect consumer devices
A more detailed description of the above threats can be found here.
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