Organized criminal activity will continue to be a big risk on the Internet next year, but the growing tumors of cyber espionage and cyber warfare could metastasize, suggests security firm McAfee. In fact, it predicts that the rise in international cyber spying will pose the single biggest security threat in 2008, based on findings from its annual cyber security study. Other threats will be a continuation of such long-standing trends as targeted hacking against banking and financial operations, and the commercialization of the malware market.
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Cyber Spying Set to Explode
Posted by: Erika Morphy November 30, 2007 09:18 AMOrganized criminal activity will continue to be a big risk on the Internet next year, but the growing tumors of cyber espionage and cyber warfare could metastasize, suggests security firm McAfee. In fact, it predicts that the rise in international cyber spying will pose the single biggest security threat in 2008, based on findings from its annual cyber security study. Other threats will be a continuation of such long-standing trends as targeted hacking against banking and financial operations, and the commercialization of the malware market.