Tuesday, February 12, 2008

McAfee Top 10 Predictions for 2008 Security Threats

McAfee Avert Labs
Top 10 Threat Predictions for 2008
http://www.mcafee.com/

1. Adware on the Decline
2. Botnets Piggyback on Storm’s Success
3. Crimeware and Phishing Move on to Secondary Targets
4. Instant Malware: A Different Kind of IM
5. Parasitic Crimeware Takes Root
6. Virtual Threat Growth to Outpace Real-World Growth
7. Virtualization Radically Changes Security
8. Windows Vista Joins the Party
9. VoIP Attacks Speak Up
10. Web 2.0: Interactivity Yields More Productive Malware

Here's the link to the 9 page .pdf report.

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It's scary out there... (oh, and, this is NOT an endorsement of their products!)