A Year In Review - A Look Back at 2007
Here we are, closing in on the end of another year. The year 2007 has been a rather interesting year in the land of bits and bytes and the land of the Internet/Cyberspace. I was contemplating the past 12 months and trying to determine what the highlights would be. I decided to turn to the Internet itself and see what my fellow computer security folks were saying.
http://www.ironport.com/securitytrends/
In their report they indicate that it appears that the spam volume has increased and has become more dangerous in nature. No longer does spam just try to sell us ridiculous things it now attempts to lure us into clicking on the link that leads to identity theft and/or malicious program installation and virus infections. I know that it has been said a hundred times in the past but it bears repeating… Think Before You Click… If only we could get this one point across to our non techie, home users, we could clean up a lot of the bad stuff happening out in Cyberspace.
Next I turned to our own SANS Internet Storm Center.
http://isc.sans.org/diaryarchive.html
This year also saw an increase in the number and sophistication of the XSS, PHP and web defacements. It seems like every time we turned around there was another alert, warning or patch being released.
Then I turned to SANS Institutes Top 20 and Top 10 lists. A Must reading for all who are involved in Internet or Computer Security.
and
the Top 10 Security Trends
http://www.sans.org/resources/10_security_trends.pdf
It is very helpful and interesting reading. If you haven’t looked at these already you should. May even give you some insight into things to come.
I could go on for pages and pages about the year in review. However, that might be pretty boring. So with that I would like to open this up to you our readers. What do you think was the most interesting/critical thing that we faced in 2007? If you have any thoughts on what 2008 will hold, let us know.
I have been trying to figure out what my slogan for 2008 will be. I haven’t found a really awesome one yet. I am leaning towards:
Security – Make it great in 2008.
Let us know if you have any really good ones. In the meantime, I want to say thank you to the best group of friends I have ever had, my fellow handlers. To those of you that I have met in person and to those who I only know from the “room” and email, may you have the happiest New Year ever. I look forward to spending another year with each and every one of you. To all of our readers and contributors, thanks for an awesome year and I look forward to hearing from you in 2008.
Signing off – Til next year.
Deb
Update 12-31-07:
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