More Crystal Gazing for 2009

Predictions 2009: Paul Ducklin of Sophos

• Compromised, infected PCs (bots), both at home and at work, will continue to remain the primary source of spam.

• Web insecurity, notably weakness against automated remote attacks such as SQL injections, will continue to be the primary way of distributing web-borne malware.

• Malicious emails will include an increasing proportion of attachments or web links to non-program (non-EXE) files.

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10 Security Predictions For 2009

1. Not Your Mama's Malware

2. 'You Just Lost Your 401(k),' And Other Attacks Exploiting The Failing Economy

3. Malware Writers Go Social

4. Locally Owned Attacks

5. Let's Get (More) Unified

6. More Activity From The Cyber Underworld

7. Inside Jobs

8. Information Lockdown

9. Let The Games Begin

10. Security Goes To The Cloud

From: Channel Web