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Top Threats for 2012? Just Look to RSA Agenda

By Stephanie Jordan
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As a perennial New Year tagalong, many predictions have been tossed around the past few weeks. For messaging, the most agreed upon predictions appear to be social network security; targeted data thievery and attacks by groups like the Anonymous hacking collective; mobility; and malicious spam and Internet redirects. While there are other threats out there, these seem to be the ones most commented upon thus far for 2012.

Published January 23, 2012

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