Thursday, October 16, 2008
The security industry is in danger of losing ground to hackers as they extend the number, scope and complexity of new attacks, it has been warned.
Following the publication of new research into challenges facing the IT security sector, Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) has called upon various different sectors to pull together and develop a unified front to thwart increasingly malicious web and network security attacks.
Vnunet.com cites the article as predicting: "While the emphasis on functionality over security may not change in 2008, GTISC expects collaboration between the security industry, carriers, ISPs, application developers and Internet users to begin closing the security gap."
In particular, the group warned that particular attention needs to be devoted to five key security areas: botnets, Web 2.0 attacks, targeted messaging, telecommunications and RFID hacking.
In a separate whitepaper, GTISC also warned that there are a host of network security flaws in the IP Multimedia Subsystem, which was described as being the main network architecture for upcoming telecommunication technologies.
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