On 1 December 2010 23:10, cribbar <crib.bar (at) hotmail.co (dot) uk [email concealed]> wrote:
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> Could I ask, from the perspective of an internal systems administrator, the
> so called ?good guy?, do you hackers / pen testers see any major trends in
> the IT security industry that people with malicious intent are now targeting
> or exploiting these days, as opposed to say, 5 years ago? Has any of the
> main focus of primary attack shifted in the last few years?

Have a look at Verizon's Data Breaches Report - they have done one for
the last few years and the results are pretty interesting - based on
who the sample data was from.

http://www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/reports/rp_2010-data-breach-rep
ort_en_xg.pdf

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