Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system will face increasing security threats, according to McAfee Avert Labs predictions for top 10 security threats in 2008.
One reason businesses have not been keen to upgrade to Vista is the hardware that is needed to handle the resource-hungry operating system, David Marcus, security research manager for McAfee Avert Labs, told ZDNet.co.uk on Friday.
“In 2007 there has been less than 10 percent market penetration for Vista,” said Marcus. “There hasn’t been a huge adoption. Most people haven’t upgraded because of the hardware upgrade needed.”
According to researchers at McAfee’s Avert Labs, 2008 is expected to usher in an increase in a variety of Web dangers, along with threats specifically targeting Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows Vista. On the positive side, the spread of adware is expected to continue in its downward trend.
“Threats are increasingly moving to the Web and migrating to newer technologies such as VoIP and instant messaging,” explained Jeff Green, senior VP of McAfee Avert Labs and product development.
Here are a list of the threats McAfee believe are the dangers of 2008;
- Online Gaming
- Windows Vista
- Adware continues its decline
- Bull’s Eye on Web 2.0
- Botnets follow the Storm
- VoIP attacks to rise 50 percent
- IM = Instant Malware
- Phishers catch a wider net
- Parasitic crimeware
- Virtualisation transforms information security
