Gartner bloke warns of PS3 invasion

Prentice reckons that the power behind the PS3 packs quite a punch, and that criminals will find it hard to resist its muscled charms. "There will be millions of PlayStation 3's sold, and they will all be online," Steve warned.

"Today, Trojans are about sending spam, but I think criminals will use Trojans to steal processor time for PlayStations when they are not in use, and use that power to attach cryptography systems and deduce the prime numbers used to generate keys.

This sort of thing is the dark flipside to what Prentice dubbed the "consumerisation" of IT - in which the power of household gadgets and gizmos sets the standard for how users expect business to act, and for the IT services they expect to be offered at work, reports TechTarget.

Supposedly, there's big security risks behind this "consumerisation." Steve said that, for example, if a worker wanted to send a large e-mail from inside an organisation, they will not break the file into small chunks to pass through the organisation's e-mail system, but instead turn to something more consumer based, like gmail for example. µ