The Biggest Security Threats We’ll Face in 2015

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As the clock strikes midnight on the new year, so begins the countdown to a new round of security threats and breaches that doubtless will unfold in 2015. But this year will be a little different. In the past, when weve talked about threat predictions, weve focused either on the criminal hackers out to steal credit card data and banking passwords or on the activist hackers out for the lulz (and maybe to teach corporate victims a lesson). But these days, no threat predictions are complete if they dont address the looming threats posed by nation-state attacks, like the ones exposed by Edward Snowden. Its been said repeatedly that when a spy agency like the NSA undermines a system to gain access for its own use, it makes that system more vulnerable to attack by others. So we begin this list with that in mind.

Read this full article at Wired

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/security-predictions-2015/