Just to keep things in balance. A Link via Gregor.
Web 2.0 Tops ‘Emerging Cyber Threats’
The ever-nebulous “Web 2.0” is emerging as one of the five top security risks to watch for both consumers and the enterprise–this according to the inaugural edition of the “GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2008” out of Georgia Tech’s Information Security Center. The report, released at the GTISC Security Summit on Emerging Cyber Security Threats and Countermeasures, identifies the key data security threats that are likely to expand and evolve in the coming year.
According to the report, the chief motivator for all of the top emerging threats will continue to be financial gain, taking advantage of holes in continually advancing applications whose development has been, to date, outpacing the development of countermeasures.
Commenting on the report, GTISC Director Mustaque Ahamad said, “As newer and more powerful applications enabled by technologies like Web 2.0 continue to grow, and converged communications applications increasingly rely on IP-based platforms, new challenges will arise in safegaurding these applications and the services they rely on. The GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2008 highlights those areas of greatest risk and concern, particularly as continued convergence of enterprise and consumer technologies is expected over the coming year.”
The report listed five broad categories of data security risk . . . .
You can read them in the report . . .
I’m still playing with facebook. No, actually more than playing, I am now doing business. But the speed with which something like a new app can travel is incredible. One little bug . .  OK, here we are not protecting the crown jewels . . But you can be watched.
I have noticed twice in the last week someone commenting “I;m not stalking you, BUT . . . ” when commenting in a slightly more personal way. I still feel like a lot of the invitations on facebook (to add wierd and unusual apps in particular) are a little off putting. There is no “Polite TJHANKS BUT NO THANKS” option. But hey, if they get offended – were they are real friend?