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Bangalore , Dec. 18

The Web 2.0 isn't a safe world. If you thought that social networks were the only targets, then brace yourself. Business networks of users linking for employment recruiting, business development, and other business-related reasons will face the same threats. The advent of `mashing' Web services and linking several online properties together will lead to increased security issues, according to security firm Websense.

Phishing

According to the Gartner November 2006 report `Web 2.0 Needs Security 101' by Mr John Pescatore, "Web 2.0 mashups that are not done securely will lead to huge openings for new forms of phishing and other attacks."

Readymade cyber-attack toolkits will become items of trade in the organised cybercrime economy of tomorrow. Websense predicted that in 2007, organised criminals would join forces with the hacker community to form such an economy.

Such cyber-criminals will even use encryption with malicious code to bypass preventive measures. Distributed command-and-control and the use of other protocols other than Internet Relay Chat or HTTP will be used to control BOT networks. Increased use of encryption and custom packing of BOTs will also occur, said the company.

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