Major security survey reveals the blindingly obvious

The Information Security Forum has published it’s Threat Horizon 2011 list, detailing the threats which the ISF reckons will present the most challenges for information security professionals during the coming two years. Future gazing within the world of ITSec is never an easy task, there are simply too many variables and the truth of the matter is nobody knows what the next big service to take off will be and how the bad guys will end up exploiting it. Which is why, for one thing, nobody was predicting hashtag spam and Twitter based third part phishing attacks a couple of years back. It is also probably why, right at the top of the Threat Horizon list in a stonking example of predicting the future by playing it as safe as possible, is the generic threat of, wait for it, criminal attacks.