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The View from Visionaries
10 Marcus Sachs
Director of SANS Internet Storm Center
The virtual world certainly has come of age this year--Second Life, World of War-craft, EverQuest.... The criminals have just started to take notice of this, and the Chinese [cybercriminals] in particular have begun to figure out you can make money in that world. ...Zero-day attacks have kind of fallen off, but I don't think they'll go away. There's a lot of interest in being the first one on the scene, not just with the vulnerability but the exploit that goes with it.
Hacking new devices [like the iPhone] will be a growing threat. In a lot of cases, it's proprietary [technology], so there's the thrill of the hunt to be the first one to say, "I've cracked this closed product." Young kids who want to make their mark on the world by defacing a Web site or breaking a Microsof...
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t application--that's so last year. ...Teens and preteens, as they come of age and the adolescent disruptive mindset starts to grip them, they'll want to break the things that they've been using, and they've been using texting, instant messaging and handheld devices. Microsoft has gotten pretty good at the patch cycles, but can you imagine how hard it would be to get updates to cell phones, iPods, iPhones, and Bluetooth [devices]--the gadgets that will rule the coming years?
High-end cars are coming [equipped] with Bluetooth and it will continue to penetrate more common cars. ...With Bluetooth, you get a lot of nice conveniences but you also get the introduction of insecurity. ...BlackBerry service was out for a day [in April]. We can see how disruptive that can be to our society should someone find a common vulnerability in Bluetooth or in BlackBerries that causes a denial of service, not just theft or fraud.
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