Has anyone bothered to check the predictions of 2009 against reality? As I recall, McAfee, et. al. predicted that massive numbers of unemployed IT workers would turn to cybercrime. If this ever came to pass, it never made the news as far as I can tell.
Here is one such prediction, from 12/2008... http://www.silicon.com/management/cio-insights/2008/12/11/jobless-techies-turning-to-crime-39363838/ ---quote--- "Impoverished techies and IT workers who have been made redundant will go rogue in 2009, selling corporate data and using crimeware, reports predict. "The credit crunch will drive IT workers to increasingly use their skills to steal credit card data using phishing attacks and to abuse their privileged corporate computer access to sell off valuable financial and intellectual information, forensic experts have warned." ---/quote--- _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
