Short clip: Verisign's top security threats of 2009

February 10, 2009, 9:55am PST | Length: 00:00:47
Ken Silva, CTO of Verisign, says that the top security threats are identity theft, denial of service attacks, and the hacking of any personal information. He describes these threats as tens of millions of little weapons, ready to attack from anywhere, and says we'll have to worry about them well into 2010 and even 2011.

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Short clip: Verisign's top security threats of 2009

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>>What are the top three biggest security problems currently?

>>Well identity theft is probably number one, denial of service attacks are probably number two and that's, I mean imagine if you will that there are, you know, tens of millions of little weapons out there that can be, you know, deployed from anywhere in the world almost instantaneously and lastly I think just actual hacking and the theft of personal information or financial information or even medical information now a days. Those are the kinds of things I think we need to worry about throughout 2009 and well into 2010 and 11.

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