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[ISN] Cyber criminals abandon 'dogs' for new, sophisticated attack methods
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_nospam>Date: Fri Jan 21 2011 - 11:18:28 GMT
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http://gcn.com/articles/2011/01/20/cybersecurity-reports-new-methods.aspx
By William Jackson
GCN.com
Jan 20, 2011
On the surface, it appears that progress is being made in the struggle
for cybersecurity. Several large spammers have been shut down, the
number of vulnerabilities reported to the National Vulnerability
Database was down in 2010, and an international investigation broke up
an online criminal ring that had stolen millions of dollars.
“It was a watershed year,” said Cisco research fellow Patrick Peterson.
“The tide began to turn in 2010.”
Seeds of international cooperation planted as long ago as 2005 are
beginning to bear fruit, as are efforts to improve the quality of
commercial software development.
But several assessments of the IT security landscape show that criminals
are adapting by becoming more professional and more selective.
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