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John Danenbarger
"We expect that social networks will be used more often to bring hacktivism into play next year. Just as cyber-crime has moved from isolated individuals (able to create a piece of malware) to unstructured groups (able to launch a DDoS), we expect to see much more and stronger organization and structure with hacktivist groups in 2011."
Now to something VERY interesting. Did the lab forecast the future or what? This was written BEFORE the Tunisian and Egyptian demonstrations.
"Hacktivism will become the new way to demonstrate your political position in 2011 and beyond. Transitioning from the streets, political organizers will move to the Internet to launch attacks and send messages in broad daylight or Internet time. And as in the physical world, we expect that hacktivist attacks will inspire and foment riots and other real-world demonstrations."
McAfee could not guess that this would all happen in 2010. What the McAfee Labs did not say is that in countries where computers are not commonplace, the cell phone has been used. So all that is said above applies to the phone as well.
I wanted to make an April Fools joke, but the subject is too serious.
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