Web threats
The popularity of Web-based application has made threats such as cross-site scripting and JavaScript attacks a serious problem.
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Highlights
WhiteHat Security CTO, Jeremiah Grossman, discussed the top 10 Web hacking techniques in the RSA conference 2010. The creation of rogue certificate authority ranked the first in the list.
While the benefits of social networking are sound as discussed in the RSA conference 2010, the security infrastructure around it should first be improved.
Healthcare security administrators are feeling the pressure as superiors become more and more lenient on allowing social networking access. It becomes a balancing act between allowing access and minimizing risks.
Botnets are a key player in DDoS attacks. Right now, we know that the most prominent spam-sending botnets control over five million active PCs.
In 2008, Kaspersky Lab's analysts forecast a rise in the number of global epidemics; unfortunately, it proved accurate as 2009 was dominated by sophisticated malicious programs with rootkit functionality, Conficker, Web attacks and botnets, SMS fraud, and attacks on social networks. So what can we expect in 2010?
