Just to be short-term for a moment, here’s the top 10 threat list of Richard Stiennon, who does the ThreatChaos blog for ZDNet. for the current year

1. 100% growth in revenue for cyber crime. …the quest for financial gain will spur cyber criminals to a banner year, at least doubling their overall take…
2. DDoS in support of phishing attacks. ….an attack against a banking or ecommerce site along with a barrage of emails that claim the site is “down for maintenance, please log in here to access your account”…
3. Successful DDoS attack against a financial services firm. …2007 will be the year of the first high profile attack against a large US or UK bank or trading desk.
4. Attacks against DNS are the threat of the year. …the collateral damage could be devastating if an attack took our one of the root domain name servers….
5. No abatement in identity theft. …Markets are developing that make it easier to monetize stolen identities thus increasing the value of stolen IDs while decreasing the cost of “moving” them.
6. More attacks against wireless networks. ..text message urging you to call a particular premium phone number (vishing), and malware that infects phones…
7. MySpace grows up and gets secure. …the number of attacks from predators, criminals and hackers will get to the point that MySpace will tighten up its controls and monitoring…
8. YouTube abuse threatens site. …video sharing will succumb to spammers who post ads, ad backed videos, and stealth marketing exploits, ruining the experience for everybody.
9. Network infrastructure shows signs of overloading. …outages, slowdowns, and a mad scramble to lay more fiber in 2007…
10. Spread of Windows Vista will have zero impact on the overall threatscape. …Reportedly you can already purchase Vista zero day exploits on the web.

Sobering stuff, even with mixed metaphors (”The cat is out of the bag. Pandora’s box is open.”). But the man was flying to Maui and back just to get frequent flyer points when he wrote this. Does he have his priorities right about imminent global catastrophes?