Browser vulnerabilities and botnets head threat list.

SANS has released the full article on their website:

Twelve cyber security veterans, with significant knowledge about emerging attack patterns, worked together to compile a list of the attacks most likely to cause substantial damage during 2008. Participants included Stephen Northcutt, Ed Skoudis, Marc Sachs, Johannes Ullrich, Tom Liston, Eric Cole, Eugene Schultz, Rohit Dhamankar, Amit Yoran, Howard Schmidt, Will Pelgrin, and Alan Paller. Here's their consensus list in ranked order:

Sans.Org 2008 Menaces

The Register links to the same information:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/14/sans_threat_list/

 - Shaun

There are 1,300,925,111,156,286,160,896 ways to spell Viagra!

Rob did the math on how many variations you could easily come up with and the above number is what he came up with.

http://cockeyed.com/lessons/viagra/viagra.html

We're excited to announce the creation of our new blog on this topic  and it's related news.  CudaMail Anti-Spam discussion, news, and a lot of techniques and tips that will be of interest to those in the IT community who are part of the fight against spam.