Websense Security Experts Analyze and Predict Trends for the Coming Year - Smartphones, Windows 7, Search Engines and Legitimate Ads are Targets of Next Year’s Attacks

SAN DIEGO – December 3, 2009 – Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), today released its list of security predictions and trends anticipated for 2010.  Researchers in the Websense® Security Labs™ have identified emerging security exploits and trends anticipated to increase during the next 12 months. The emerging trends and predictions show an overall blending of security threats across multiple attack vectors for the purpose of roping computers into bot networks and stealing valuable confidential information. Researchers believe that hackers will look to compromise new platforms such as smartphones and take advantage of the popularity of Windows 7. They are also expected to compromise the integrity of search engine results and use legitimate advertisements to spread their malicious content.