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Monday, January 05, 2009
Cyber Security Reaches “Tipping Point” in 2008; Attacks on Critical Infrastructure Systems and Cyber
The year 2008 was a time security threats and malicious activity reached a tipping point, and 2009 stands to be the year critical infrastructure systems become prime targets for cyber criminals and the global financial crisis will be exploited for a variety of malicious activities, according to a new report released today from VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) iDefense Security Intelligence Services.
Cyber Cartels, groups of young and modern cyber criminals likened by VeriSign iDefense to drug cartels of the 1980s, targeted commercial—not individual—banking accounts for fraud operations and security measures meant to protect those accounts and routinely defeated the protections.
“The cyber security landscape has fundamentally changed where ‘script kiddies’ no longer perpetrate the lion’s share of malicious activity online,” said Jason Greenwood, vice president and general manager, VeriSign iDefense Security Intelligence Services.
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Verisign-Inc-NASDAQ-VRSN-930692.html