The techniques used by hackers to steal confidential information will become more refined. Why would they go to the trouble of doing something that gives nothing in return? Being realistic, the problem we will have next year will be the same as this year: theft of confidential user data to operate bank accounts using stolen identities. Creators of malicious code, hackers and the like are only in it for the money these days. A couple of dozen botnets launching several queries per second would do the trick.īut obviously, this is not going to happen. If the servers were dimensioned to avoid this type of attack, the attacker would only need to find the appropriate number of computers to carry out this task. By simply launching requests to enter a pension queries page, the system would stop responding to the public, as it would not be able to deal with so many queries. For example, a sufficiently widespread worm that, at a specific moment, tried to logon to the social security servers of a certain country. It would be more feasible to try a denial of service attack against a vital Internet service. Of course, the Internet is not so easy to bring to a halt.
And this could be done using a silent worm that could infiltrate many computers and from there, launch an attack at any given time. Trying to crash the Internet is a complicated task, but it is the goal of many hackers. Who would not have been surprised if in 2002 they had been told that a worm was going to bring down hundreds of servers in less than a minute? SQLSlammer did it in January 2003. Who would have said that in 1999, a virus was going to saturate the Internet and make the front page of all the newspapers? Loveletter did just that in 2000. The problem with making a prediction about security in the year 2007 is that no matter how basic or extravagant it might be, it may actually come true.
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