Almost 20 years since the commercialization of the Internet, no business or individual could possibly function without it. But the World Wide Web is not without its flaws. The online threat environment has intensified in the last few years due an increasing pool of sophisticated fraudsters and the availability of new technologies that has facilitated such criminal activities. In this article, Geoff Haydon, Vice President, Asia Pacific, RSA, identifies the Top 8 forms of online attacks to watch out for in 2010.
Cybercriminals are once again taking advantage of a world-wide news event, to seed their Trojans, said Guillaume Lovet senior manager, threat response team, EMEA Fortinet Technologies. This has happened with every single major news piece since at least 2005, ranging from the Katrina hurricane to Barack Obama's election, along with the bird flu alerts of 2006.
