Tim Bass
Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:16:33 +0000
Another top ten*cybersecurity threat for 2008:
***** — Criminal*use of botnets and botnet-like technologies.
One of most*profitable*criminal enterprises on*the Internet*are botnets.** Botnets are used by criminals to*blast out*phishing scams, spam, malware. and denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.**
Many security experts*believe*that botnets are*now a*greater threat*than viruses and worms.* Botnets can have hundreds of thousands*of nodes under the control of the botherder,*making*botnets a very profitable cybercrime enterprise.**Criminals*often rent their*botnet services to other*criminals for big money.
Making matters worse, the vulnerability-threat window, the time from*the discovery of a vulnerability to exploitation of that vulnerability, has dramatically decreased, so*botnets can grow very large, very fast, in what I call viral-exploitation.***
Today, all online businesses face the threat of extortion, terrorism, phishing*and spam*by criminal botnets.
Please stay tuned for more of the top 10 cybersecurity threats for 2008 - and thank you for reading, and don’t forgot to make your your systems are up-to-date with the latest patches!



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