Websense predicted that in 2007 organized criminals will join forces with the hacker community to form a more organized cybercrime economy, which buys, sells and trades hot commodities such as ready made cyber-attack toolkits and exploits utilizing zero-day vulnerabilities. Websense security experts also predict that Web 2.0 security issues will escalate as these technologies are being rolled out in mass with security as an afterthought.
No longer are e-mail borne worms and viruses the top concern. Today’s threats revolve around the changing, dynamic and ubiquitous use of the Internet. The Web will continue to be the number one infection vector for malicious code designed to steal information, which is evolving at a rapid pace in both numbers and in attack sophistication.
