Arbor Networks’ 5th annual report reveals that IP network operators believe service and application-level attacks will cause the most problems in 2010. Released yesterday, the report surveyed 132 respondents from North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia and found that following application-level attacks, Botnets are the second largest operational threat for organizations in the next twelve months. Arbor Networks also stated that the nature of attacks is shifting from volume-based to a more focused and targeted method of attack against cloud infrastructure.
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