We have been witness to catastrophic global financial meltdown. Unfortunately for us who spend any time on the internet, recovery will not occur on internet time.
In the interim, plenty of "information workers"...errmm senior system administrators, distinguished network engineers as well as their MSCE brethren are being told they are no longer needed and have lost their jobs.
The result is that there are likely an order of magnitude more internet servers that are slated for decommissioning. The skeleton crew left over will eventually get to it(or not). However, abandoned systems are no long being monitored, or patched and likely will fall out of inventories as more cost cutting measures are implemented.
This is good news for cybercriminals. I'm predicting an upsurge in server attacks using vulnerabilities discovered over this last quarter of 2008. We could start seeing this as soon as second quarter 2009. It's likely happening right now.
Not sure what to do about it at this point
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