Businesses Exposed to New and Varied Security Threats

Security experts revealed the most serious new threats businesses are facing at the RSA security conference held in San Francisco during the second week of April 2008.

They listed the prime threats as those ranging from changes in already existing phenomena like phishing and malware to less popular ones like the pass-the-hash attacks and metasploit releases.

Hacking expert, Ed Skoudis, the Sans Institute, said that a majority of security threats arise because there are too many software that operate on the Internet. He said that all applications have been oriented to the Web, as reported by ZDNet on April 11, 2008.

The metasploit releases among the...

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