From the Federal Times:
Cyber-espionage and phishing scams will cause bigger headaches for federal information security managers this year, one expert group predicts.
Researchers from the SANS Institute, a computer security research center, compiled a list of the 10 biggest cyber-security threats in 2008. Many items on the list are not new. Phishing scams, for example — official-looking e-mails that redirect users to malicious Web sites — have been around for years. But they rapidly are becoming more sophisticated and sending more targeted e-mails, according to Alan Paller, director of research at SANS.
“Their success level, and their ability to evade common defenses, is what’s new,” Paller says of the scams, which rank ninth on the list. “We’re not saying you haven’t seen these before, but they will cause a lot of damage this year.”
Ah, bedazzled jackets.
Tags: SANS, Threats, Phishing, Espionage
