Discussion Board

You learned about the following emerging threats that are likely to shape the security landscape in the future:

• Social engineering
• Mobile devices used as bots
• Scams by questionable security consulting or software firms that use fear tactics to get users to purchase their product to remove security problems
• Data-focused attacks
• Cloud computing
• Expansion of malware

Answer the following question(s):

In your opinion, which threat poses the greatest risk to Microsoft Windows applications? Why?