[ISN] Cyber criminals abandon 'dogs' for new, sophisticated attack methods

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:18:28 -0600 (CST)
http://gcn.com/articles/2011/01/20/cybersecurity-reports-new-methods.aspx

By William Jackson
GCN.com
Jan 20, 2011

On the surface, it appears that progress is being made in the struggle 
for cybersecurity. Several large spammers have been shut down, the 
number of vulnerabilities reported to the National Vulnerability 
Database was down in 2010, and an international investigation broke up 
an online criminal ring that had stolen millions of dollars.

“It was a watershed year,” said Cisco research fellow Patrick Peterson. 
“The tide began to turn in 2010.”

Seeds of international cooperation planted as long ago as 2005 are 
beginning to bear fruit, as are efforts to improve the quality of 
commercial software development.

But several assessments of the IT security landscape show that criminals 
are adapting by becoming more professional and more selective.

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