December 07, 2005
SYMC sees its shadow
It's that time again. With the approach of the new year inevitably comes the storm of new year's prognostications designed to give infosec practitioners a head-start on what's to come in aught-six. It's time to sum up the old and forecast the new; and kicking off that effort is none other than John "Punxsutawney" Thompson himself telling us all what's to come in the new year. OK, that's not exactly true; John Thompson didn't make the forecasts himself - Vincent Weafer over at SYMC was the actual individual tasked with making the predictions (even Punxsutawney Phil has a handler you know.)
So, what does SYMC say we have queued up for 2006? Surprisingly, it's low-volume fraud-based attacks like spyware and phishing. And according to Symantec, "there is apathy and a general lack of interest about it." (It's been a long time since I've been called "apathetic"; high school was the last time, I think.) Of course, someone might point out that this is more or less the same as 2004 analyst predictions for aught-five and 2003 analyst predictions for aught-four, but that would spoil the fun.
Posted by Ed at December 7, 2005 09:11 PM