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Bill and Bob discuss what other people think are the information security trends for 2008.

Paul Kocher’s theory is that you don’t “win” at security, the best you can hope for is to be able to keep playing: a “stalemate” mentality versus a “checkmate” mentality. That’s a great theory, but Bill’s trying to figure out how we declare “success” in the computer and information security space. For instance, by what measure can we declare that we’ve done a better job in 2007 than in 2006?

What do YOU think will rock the security world in 2008?

Links discussed or referenced in the show:

• Data breach statistics: The number of records stolen per second has increased from 1.7 to 5.1 between 2006 and 2007: http://etiolated.org/statistics
• A good statistical writeup:  http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/DataBreaches2006-Analysis.htm
• Data breaches are on the decline (what does THAT mean?): http://etiolated.org/
• Symantec 2008 predictions:
  • Decentralized bot nets {Bill: that’s already been done!}
  • popular websites spreading malware; especially social network sites
  • Mobile phones (move to where the users are)
  • Virtual worlds (Did 2nd life already jump the shark?)
  • Election/political hacks, phishing, DoS {Check out the security cartoon interview from episode 7.10}
• Ed Felten:
  • From the site’s comments: A new kind of botnet will come into existence (or at least, be discovered), without a visible control channel. It will be designed to be autonomous and evolve slowly. Stealthy, many variants will remain below the radar of bot hunters. {Bill: doesn’t that already exist?}
  • A Facebook application will cause a big privacy to-do.
  • {Bill: I think a ad-related version of this will happen.}

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