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 Security Hype 8.1-Our 2008 Predictions - Voicemail line 1-866-527-6606 [12:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1483)

Show Notes for 8.1:

1. Shout-outs to:
   1. Thank you to the mysterious and powerful Bill @ Apple for technical assistance
   2. Thank you to Wil Becker (http://ironwil.net/blog/) for adding us to his blogroll - THANKS!
2. Bob’s sarcastic predictions:
   1. Microsoft will claim that Vista will be the most secure OS EVAR!
   2. Virtualization will prove to be a new shiny toy for malware authors. Or at least someone will demonstrate something cool to the press.
   3. Reasonably sane people will start taking themselves “off the grid”. Social networking sites will continue to leak private information, and the benefits of social nets will be lower than the costs for some people.
   4. Sarbanes and Oxley will win the Nobel Peace Prize.
   5. 2008 will be the year of PKI!
3. Bill’s predictions:
   1. People will become desensitized to PII breaches, news overage will wane, people will get blasé about it
   2. Macs OS X will see its first really solid malware attack that will be a wake-up call to Mac users to finally check (enable!, for Tiger) their firewalls and install AV scanning software. Free = ClamXav
      1. Will it force Leopard upgrades? If hackers are smart, their attack will be Leopard compatible.
   3. Overly greedy, warring botnet factions will fight each other and briefly take out parts of the Internet in collateral damage
      1. site:phishing toolkits with backdoors
   4. IPv6 will start to gain traction and we’ll start seeing IPv6 hacks (finally), which is probably an inevitable phase for any technology to become ubiquitous.
   5. The corp security industry (cutbacks, less to spend) will be focused on maintaining compliance, moving away from “risk management” and “ROI”. Watch for more marketing messages in that vain.
   6. No massive attack on cell phone networks or SCADA. (And would we ever find out?)
   7. Malware served via ads, serve up malware (related to legit web site defacement)
      1. Ad distribution become decentralized, democratized, less trustworthy

Have predictions of your own? Post them below or call the studio voice mail line!

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