Hackers to Target Video Sharing, Mobile Devices in 2007

[mandy]

Besides the rising risk of video-sharing on the Internet, McAfee identified nine other risks to watch in 2007:

    * The number of password-stealing Web sites will increase, using fake sign-in pages for popular online services such as eBay;
    * The volume of spam, particularly bandwidth-eating image spam, will continue to increase;
    * Mobile phone attacks will become more prevalent as mobile devices become "smarter" and more connected;
    * Adware will go mainstream following the increase in commercial Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs);
    * Identity theft and data loss will continue to be a public issue;
    * The use of bots -- computer programs that perform automated tasks -- will increase as a tool favored by hackers;...

full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/kk1XqZSF...ices.xhtml

[regic]

Professional cyberthieves and organized crime rings are looking to cash in on stolen identities, and are releasing an increasing amount of malware in the process.

There are more than 217,000 types of known security threats in the wild and probably thousands more that researchers haven't even identified yet, according to McAfee Avert Labs.

For the year ahead, McAfee predicts the following disturbing trends: a rise in the number of password-stealing Web sites that use fake sign-in pages for popular online services such as eBay; the mainstreaming of adware; the increasing prevalence of mobile phone attacks; and, as video-sharing on the Web continues to gain popularity, the inevitable targeting of video files as a means to distribute malicious code...

full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/WmzkMhzZ...2007.xhtml

[BellisimaJ.]

Maybe we should stay offline?