Internet security report 2008

Here are a few of the ideas that are worth noting:. As other sources of information, this report presents evidence of the growing number of organised crime groups behind online threats. Filed under Cybercrime , Information security Tagged with Symantec internet threat report. Docteur en informatique. Law enforcement officer colonel with the Gendarmerie nationale in France. PhD in computer science. Working since in the fight against cybercrime. Views published on these blogs are personal.

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There are a number of trends noted in previous volumes of the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report that continued in malicious activity has increasingly become Web-based; attackers are targeting end users instead of computers; the online underground economy has consolidated and matured; and attackers are able to rapidly adapt their attack activities. Based on the data and discussions presented in the current Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, this summary will examine the primary methods being used to compromise end users and organizations, who is generating these attacks, and what these attackers are after.

Finally, this summary will look at emerging trends that Symantec believes will become prevalent in the immediate future. Log in here Download this White Paper! Please provide a Corporate Email Address. This email address is already registered. Please log in. As it also suggests, this should be done at the European or international level. Who is even liable in these settings? If I together with a small academic community write a new product with nasty stack overflow in it, will we be liable and to whom?

Vendors that have possibly no commercial assets? With apologies to both our host, and to Mr Schneier, these vendor liability schemes look designed to drive free software underground. But what on earth do these people have against the FreeBSD project? But you have to look off this blog for the record-breaker. Excuse me. In practice, a fair amount of free software reaches the public via aggregators such as RedHat or via organisations such as the Apache Foundation.

They would be the ones who would test the software, assure themselves of its quality and then stand behind it in the marketplace. Incidentally, I have received advice that, under the common law, unilateral license or leave shall be revoked upon actual notice. Please cease and desist forthwith any and all public display of posts deemed objectionable.

I am still curious about liability of individual open source developers. If I am the sole distributor of software developed by me alone, will I face, say, civil prosecution in case of fatal security issues in the software distributed directly by me?