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Trend Micro Releases Future Threat Report
02 Jan 2010
According to a newly released 'Trend Micro 2010 Future Threat Report', cloud computing and virtualization, while offering significant benefits and cost-savings, will expand the playing field for cyber criminals.
The 'next-generation' protocol designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Protocol v.6, is still in the experimentation stages of replacing the current IPv4.
As users start to explore IPv6, so will cyber criminals, and we can expect to see proof-of-concept elements in IPv6 beginning to materialize soon. Possible avenues for abuse include new covert channels or C&C.
Social media and social networks will be used by cybercriminals to enter the users 'circle of trust'. Social engineering will continue to play a big role in the propagation of threats. But the increasing saturation of social media and the content shared via online social interactions, cybercriminals will definitely try to penetrate and compromise popular communities more than ever in 2010. Social networks are also ripe venues for stealing personally identifiable information (PII).
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