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CA today published its list of predictions for what they think will be the top hazards for 2008. Here goes:
1. Bots will dominate 2008: The number of computers infected by botnets will increase sharply in 2008. In an effort to become harder to detect, bot-herders are changing their tactics and decentralizing via peer-to-peer architectures. They [...]

It is 2008 and information security experts from all over have unanimously predicted that phishing and other forms of social engineering will continue to be rampant… only this time, they will target the hugely popular social security sites.
Over the last couple of years, the popularity of sites like MySpace, Facebook, Orkut and Bebo has risen [...]