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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

#SECURITY: "Privacy and Trust On Trial in 2012"

Georgia Tech predicts that Internet privacy and trust will erode in 2012 due to a new era of sophisticated cyber-threats including search poisoning, peer-to-peer botnets, and rampant mobile-device breeches.



As cyber-threats become more sophisticated in 2012, users will become increasingly vulnerable to exploitation by malicious websites, stealth botnets, and wholesale commercial-use of stolen data caches, wresting away user confidence in the Internet.
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