THE NEXT BIG THREAT

摘要

The worst thing about the new generation of network security threats is that they're now about financial gain. "It sounds like an old cliche," says Forrester Research analyst Paul Stamp. "But it really isn't about the vandal anymore, it's about money." The pimply-faced hacker kid living in his parents' basement, and spending his nights alternating between reruns of Star Trek and virus coding, has grown up. He's now an accomplished programmer with expertise to sell. With that change, has come new types of attacks. Worms and viruses, disruptive demonstrations of digital malice, have begun to fade as the big threat on the network, Stamp says, to be replaced by exploits that strike deep in the heart of the enterprise.