Over at eBizQ, Peter Schoof's got a podcast (and transcript) of an interview he did with Dave Cole, Director of Security Response at Symantec, in which the digital security vet discusses the evolution of computer security's needs in an era of Web 2.0. Salientely, Cole comments on virtual worlds and social networking sites in this excerpt:

The last couple of things I'd mention is the trend toward virtualization that is just starting to be understood from a security perspective. It's fairly early in that arena so as organizations move to wholly adopt virtualization for a number of reasons, for costs purposes, management purposes and so forth, we've yet to fully understand the impact of what virtualization is going to have on the security landscape. So that will be interesting to watch.

And lastly, we're starting to see the evolutions of threats that are service-specific. So, take a look at the wild world of Web 2.0, and social networks like MySpace, or Facebook, take a look at things like Second Life and these virtual worlds that are out there. We've seen some pretty interesting custom worms that exist only inside those services and only affect people using those services so, again, attacks in the future may not just be regional specific but they may also be specific to the online communities and services you're using.

[Via EbizQ]