{"id":2191,"date":"2007-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/10\/06\/top-five-threats-for-2008\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:51","slug":"top-five-threats-for-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/10\/06\/top-five-threats-for-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Threats for 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, the number of user machines that become bot-infected will be one in 10 or greater, according to the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), which earlier this week released a report on the main threats for next year.  Tens of millions of computers &#8212; about 10 percent of those connected to the Net &#8212; are already acting as bots in botnets today, the GTISC says.  The other threats that will evolve and increase next year are Web 2.0 and client-side attacks; targeted messaging attacks; mobile attacks; and attacks on RFID systems, the GTISC says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among other things, the report proposes educating Web developers on secure coding techniques; adopting more behavior-based protection; enabling protection engines to understand JavaScript; and encouraging Website remediation and better content-filtering by browsers.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/document.asp?doc_id=135609<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}