Richard Stiennon has announced his top ten threats for 2007 on his blog at ZDNet. His top ten threats are as follows.

1. 100% Growth in revenue for cyber crime
2. DDoS in support of phishing attacks
3. Successful DDoS attack against a financial services firm
4. Attacks against DNS are the threat of the year
5. No abatement in identity theft
6. More attacks against wireless networks
7. MySpace grows up and gets secure
8. YouTube abuse threatens site
9. Network infrastructure shows signs of overloading
10. Spread of Windows Vista will have zero impact on the overall threatscape

View the entire contents of the report HERE

Internet data center services provider IP-Converge Data Center, Inc. has signed a deal with security firm Prolexic to build Asia’s first large-scale anti-DDOS (distributed denial of service) platform to prevent IP-Converge customers from experiencing DDOS attacks.

According to a reports, DDOS attacks is the most common and worst type of network security problems global network infrastructures.

IP-Converge chief technology officer Warren Liu said the platform is scheduled to go live at the end of 2006 and will start in points-of-presence facilities that will be established by the company in Asian key cities, with the first one to be built in Hong Kong, China.

He said they want to integrate DDOS mitigation strategies in their network to prevent the operations of their customers from stopping when attacked by DDOS.