timeout and update on what's going on. I got my drobo up and running
and quickly realized that life had no meaning if I didn't add a
DroboShare. My wife, being next to Godly as she is, bought me one.
Now I have all of my content networked (NAS) for all of my systems.
Website is up and running on it, however, no good one has really been
published for it yet. I do think they'll take off. All in all, I
quickly filled up 1 TB with multimedia. Now need to add more space.
With the credit crisis, layoffs and future issues coming, I have to
say I'm pretty excited. It's times like these that people start being
inventive with new solutions to problems. Necessity is the mother of
all inventions and we are starting to go into a necessity phase. I'm
really looking forward to some of the changes we'll see in the
"Internet" usage and applications. The transformation to netbooks has
already started and only time will tell if we will be able to get to
the iPhone type form factor for everything.
Of course, any update would be remise without a security context. In
looking back over 08 a lot has happened. We seen the transformation
from standard attack models to strong(er) monetary funded ones.
Migration from electronic to physical compromise of devices for
financial theft, large identify compromises for fraud, governmental
use of zombies for pre-physical invasions. Of course some of these
have been going on prior to this year, yet, they are growing.
Organized ecrime will only get stronger as the global economy
deteriorates. It won't last forever, but I do expect it to be a very
rough couple of years with more intelligent individuals trying to find
ways to make more money with ecrime.
With the economy being what it is and going where it's going, with the
dramatic increase in malware professionalism and organized economies
of scale supporting ecrime. I have to say this is going to be rough.
It's also going to be where we are going to start being a focal point
by corporations and governments alike. I do think that we will see
some large issues over the next five years that will propel InfoSec
into the spotlight. Of course this isn't always a good thing.
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