Some trends depend on very evident developments. Do you see more cellphones out there? Then you should worry about mobile malware. Other likely trends are simply a matter of ingenuity among fraudsters. What new tricks and variants of old tricks will they develop? If you can think of new types of fraud and assess their likely success rates, you will be able to predict which ones will flourish.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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