In the past few
months we have witnessed enormous changes in cyber threats like mobile related
threats, hacktivism, client-side exploitation, social-media exploitation, and
targeted attacks.
As per 2012 Threat Predictions report by McAfee
Labs, more changes are expected in
coming year in even the most established threat vectors as follow:
- Industrial threats will mature and segment
- Embedded hardware attacks will widen and deepen
- Hacktivism and Anonymous will reboot and evolve
- Virtual currency systems will experience broader and more frequent attacks
- This will be the “Year for (not “of”) Cyberwar”
- DNSSEC will drive new network threat vectors
- Traditional spam will go “legit,” while spearphishing will evolve into the targeted messaging attack
- Mobile botnets and rootkits will mature and converge
- Rogue certificates and rogue certificate authorities will undermine users’ confidence
- Advances in operating systems and security will drive next-generation botnets and rootkits
This report has also
mentioned that "It’s time for extensive Penetration Testing and Emergency
Response Planning that includes cyber components and networking with law
enforcement at all levels."
2012 Threat
Predictions report by McAfee Labs can be downloaded from here: http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/rp-threat-predictions-2012.pdf?eid=NAMWPGSCSC011
Solutions : www.xcyss.in
No comments:
Post a Comment