The 10 Biggest Cyber Safety Threats For 2011 !

PandaLabs, the antimalware laboratory of Panda Security, the cloud safety company, has forecasted several radical innovations inward cyber-crime for 2011. Hacktivism too cyber-war; to a greater extent than profit-oriented malware; social media; social applied scientific discipline too malicious codes alongside the might to accommodate to avoid detection volition hold upwards the main threats inward the coming year. There volition also hold upwards an increase inward the threats to Mac users, novel efforts to assail 64-bit systems too zero-day exploits.

Following is a summary of what PandaLabs predicts equally the 10 major safety trends of 2011:

1.	Malware creation: In 2010, PandaLabs witnessed pregnant growth inward the amount of malware too discovered at to the lowest degree xx i K m novel strains, to a greater extent than than inward 2009. At present, Panda’s Collective Intelligence database stores a full of to a greater extent than than lx i K m classified threats. The actual charge per unit of measurement of growth year-on-year however, appears to stimulate got peaked. Several years agone it was over 100 percentage too inward 2010 it was 50 percent.
2.	Cyber war: Stuxnet too the WikiLeaks cables suggesting the interest of the Chinese authorities inward the cyber-attacks on Google too other targets stimulate got marked a turning signal inward the history of these conflicts. Stuxnet was an endeavor to interfere alongside processes inward nuclear plants, specifically, alongside uranium centrifuge. Attacks such equally these, albeit about sophisticated, are soundless ongoing, too volition undoubtedly increase inward 2011, fifty-fifty though many of them volition overstep away unnoticed past times the full general public.
3.	Cyber-protests: Cyber-protests , or hacktivism, are all the rage too volition proceed to grow inward frequency. This novel displace was initiated past times the Anonymous grouping too Operation Payback, targeting organizations trying to unopen the cyberspace on Internet piracy, too afterwards inward back upwards of Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks. Even users alongside express technical know-how tin bring together inward the distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) or spam campaigns.
	Despite hasty attempts inward many countries to overstep legislation to counter this type of activeness effectively past times criminalizing it, PandaLabs believes that inward 2011 at that spot volition hold upwards to a greater extent than cyber-protests, organized past times this grouping or others that volition laid about to emerge.
4.	Social engineering: Cyber-criminals stimulate got constitute social media sites to hold upwards their perfect working environment, equally users are fifty-fifty to a greater extent than trusting alongside these than alongside other types of tools, such equally email.
	Throughout 2010, PandaLabs witnessed diverse attacks that used the ii around pop social networks – Facebook too Twitter – equally launching pads. In 2011, non exclusively volition hackers proceed to role these networks, precisely it is predicted that they volition also hold upwards used to a greater extent than for distributed attacks.
	BlackHat SEO attacks (indexing too positioning of simulated websites inward search engines) volition also hold upwards widely employed throughout 2011, equally always, taking wages of hot topics to accomplish equally many users equally possible. In addition, a pregnant amount of malware volition hold upwards disguised equally plug-ins, media players too other like applications.
5.	Windows vii influencing malware development: It volition accept at to the lowest degree ii years earlier at that spot is a proliferation of threats designed specifically for Windows 7. In 2010, PandaLabs began seeing a shift inward this direction, too predicts that inward 2011, novel cases of malware targeting users of this novel operating scheme volition proceed to emerge.
6.	Mobile phones: In 2011 at that spot volition hold upwards novel attacks on mobile phones, precisely it volition non hold upwards on a massive scale. Most of the existing threats target devices alongside Symbian, an operating scheme which is instantly on the wane. Of the emerging systems, PandaLabs predicts that the threats for Android volition increase considerably throughout the year, becoming the pose out i mobile target for cyber-crooks.
7.	Tablets: The say-so of the iPad volition start to hold upwards challenged past times novel competitors entering the market. Therefore PandaLabs does non believe that tablet PCs volition teach a major consideration for the cyber-criminals inward 2011.
8.	Mac: Malware for Mac exists, too volition proceed to exist. And equally the marketplace seat portion of Mac users continues to grow, the pose out of threats volition grow. The greatest concern is the pose out of safety holes inward the Apple operating system. Developers volition involve to piece these holes equally shortly equally possible, equally hackers are good aware of the possibilities that these vulnerabilities offering for propagating malware.
9.	HTML5: HTML5 is the perfect target for many types of criminals too could eventually supervene upon Flash. It tin hold upwards run past times browsers without whatever plug-ins, making it fifty-fifty to a greater extent than attractive to uncovering a safety hole that tin hold upwards exploited to assail users regardless of which browser they use. PandaLabs expects to encounter the showtime attacks on HTML5 inward the coming months.
10.	Highly dynamic too encrypted threats: PandaLabs expects dynamic too encrypted threats to increase inward 2011. PandaLabs is receiving to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than encrypted, stealth threats designed to connect to a server too update themselves earlier safety companies tin uncovering them. There are also to a greater extent than threats that target specific users, peculiarly companies, equally information stolen from businesses volition fetch a higher cost on the dark market.

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