(PRWEB) December 18, 2012 Lamar Bailey, Director of Security Research and Development with nCircle, has released his top five security threats to watch out for in 2013. The New Year and beyond he predicts, will be a time of highly adaptive security threats, with four main strands – cyber-criminals, cyber-terrorists, political hacktivists and rogue employees conspiring to create severe headaches for IT security professionals in all classes of public and private sector industries. The key thing to remember about these threats is that – whilst some of them may ostensibly appear to be old – they are still very much alive and kicking and will be exploited further in 2013 as the hackers upgrade and invigorate them. This is an important issue, as some security vendors allow older exploits to `drop off their first line defences in order to store as many attack methodologies in memory as possible, he said. This trend is something we know that todays cybercriminals are very well aware of, as they monitor the IT security newswires and reports as all professionals do on a regular basis – and then optimise their planned attack strategies to maximise the chances of compromising a targeted system, he added. One of the key issues that nCircles director of security says will be crucial in 2013, is the trend of exploiting extensible code platforms such as ActiveX, HTML5, JavaScript and the many variants of multimedia most of which are an evolving environment, especially against the backdrop of the new Windows 8 operating system. nCircle Predicts Exploits of Yesteryear Will Mutate in 2013

(PRWEB) December 18, 2012

Lamar Bailey, Director of Security Research and Development with nCircle, has released his top five security threats to watch out for in 2013.

The New Year and beyond he predicts, will be a time of highly adaptive security threats, with four main strands – cyber-criminals, cyber-terrorists, political hacktivists and rogue employees conspiring to create severe headaches for IT security professionals in all classes of public and private sector industries.

The key thing to remember about these threats is that – whilst some of them may ostensibly appear to be old – they are still very much alive and kicking and will be exploited further in 2013 as the hackers upgrade and invigorate them. This is an important issue, as some security vendors allow older exploits to `drop off their first line defences in order to store as many attack methodologies in memory as possible, he said.

This trend is something we know that todays cybercriminals are very well aware of, as they monitor the IT security newswires and reports as all professionals do on a regular basis – and then optimise their planned attack strategies to maximise the chances of compromising a targeted system, he added.

One of the key issues that nCircles director of security says will be crucial in 2013, is the trend of exploiting extensible code platforms such as ActiveX, HTML5, JavaScript and the many variants of multimedia most of which are an evolving environment, especially against the backdrop of the new Windows 8 operating system.

nCircle Predicts Exploits of Yesteryear Will Mutate in 2013