Re: threats abound for 2010 what shall we do, oh my!

[The Security Community <thesecuritycommunity () gmail com>]

Has anyone bothered to check the predictions of 2009 against reality?

As I recall, McAfee, et. al. predicted that massive numbers of
unemployed IT workers would turn to cybercrime.  If this ever came to
pass, it never made the news as far as I can tell.

Here is one such prediction, from 12/2008...

http://www.silicon.com/management/cio-insights/2008/12/11/jobless-techies-turning-to-crime-39363838/

---quote---

"Impoverished techies and IT workers who have been made redundant will
go rogue in 2009, selling corporate data and using crimeware, reports
predict.

"The credit crunch will drive IT workers to increasingly use their
skills to steal credit card data using phishing attacks and to abuse
their privileged corporate computer access to sell off valuable
financial and intellectual information, forensic experts have warned."

---/quote---
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