Symantec Highlights Virtual Worlds Security Threat
We know now that there are plenty of security issues surrounding virtual worlds, and now digital security giant and Norton software developer Symantec's Wayne Perriman has named them among its top security threats for 2008, according to eChannelline's Vanessa Ho:
Like McAfee reported in their 2008 trend report, persistent virtual worlds and massively multiplayer online games are becoming increasingly attractive to new threats with criminals, phishers, spammers and others as they turn their attention to these new communities. "There is virtual money associated with some of these communities," noted Periman.Periman said that the real trend, which emerged in 2007 and would continue in 2008, is the overall commercialization of attacks. "It is no longer about going on the Internet and bad guys trying to make a name for themselves by demonstrating their expertise to anyone but the crime game."
It's nothing that hasn't been mentioned before, but it will be interesting to see what companies like Symantec and McAfee will offer to address the issue -- especially since this is something the Symantic folks have already been discussing earlier this year.
