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Saturday, December 14, 2002
Research Firm Predicts Cyberterror in 2003 - James Maguire, NewsFactor Network
Among other projections, IDC forecast that Linux will take significant market share away from Unix operating systems in 2003. Cyberterrorists will launch a major attack in 2003, according to research firm IDC, which has released a laundry list of predictions for the coming year. The offensive will involve a network intrusion or a distributed denial-of-service attack -- or perhaps even an attack on the Internet's physical infrastructure . This act of cyberterror will completely halt online traffic for a full day or longer and will seriously affect the economy, IDC forecast. "We've already seen some evidence of this," IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky noted.
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