Adapting and Changing Threats
The attackers’ abilities to constantly change and improve have become truly dangerous. The blackhats themselves may not be getting better, but their tools definitely are improving.
The greatest risk the security community has identified is the growing trend of automated tools. These tools allow untrained individuals around the world to probe and hack into literally thousands of computers in a single night. This threat is exponentially dangerous as thousands of attackers may be launching the same tools at the same time from locations around the world. If you put an IP stack on a coffeepot, these automated tools will find and attack them. Once released, worms can mutate faster than the security community can react. ...
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