Internet Attack Trends for 2005

Bruce Schneier has published an article in ACM's Queue magazine of Internet Attack Trends for the year 2005. You can access this article from his site pdf or html.

We expect to see more blended threats: exploit code that combines malicious code with vulnerabilities in order to launch an attack. We expect Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Services) Web server to continue to be an attractive target. As more and more companies migrate to Windows 2003 and IIS 6, however, we expect attacks against IIS to decrease.

We also expect to see peer-to-peer networking as a vector to launch viruses.