For anyone who has spent the past 10 years thinking IT security is all about operating systems, software, and the Internet, it’s a little shocking to read McAfee’s IT Security predictions for 2012. McAfee doesn’t spend a lot of text discussing new threats to the usual suspects. Instead, it zooms into the next frontier, where Read more…
With the McAfee Labs’ 2012 predictions report as a guide, we started off this month’s #SecChat by crowdsourcing the question to our participants: what did the security community believe would be the most influential threats of 2012? We received a wide variety of speculations and well thought-out arguments, and we’ve collected what we hope is Read more…
Last month, McAfee Labs released its 2012 threat predictions report, taking its annual stab at predicting the course of our industry in the coming year. The McAfee researchers foresaw several new scenarios and significant evolutions in some of the most established threat vectors, including industrial threats, embedded hardware, hacktivism, virtual currency systems and more. During Read more…
With 2012 just a few short days away, it’s that time of year when, in the words of McAfee Labs’ Dave Marcus, we “dust off the crystal ball, put on our battered Mr. Wizard hat,” and speculate about what the new year has in store. McAfee Labs recently announced its 2012 threat predictions, to which Read more…
Each year, McAfee Labs™ looks at the trends that they’ve seen over the past 12 months to make predictions about the types of security threats they expect to see in 2012. While looking into the future can be hit or miss, looking at trends and motives can give us a good idea of what to Read more…
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