On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:27:54 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I don't want to take this discussion too far, but I really wonder why > everybody focuses on worms - as if the threat a dedicated and targeted > attack poses was any lower...
We don't see dedicated and targeted attacks at 4 million cablemodem users designed to drop off trojans, ddos zombies, and similar. Many of the worst "dedicated and targeted attacks" of late presuppose the presence of a zombie net - preventing the formation of such a net then makes the attack a lot harder to carry out. And for that matter, installation of a keystroke logger to sniff out credit card numbers *IS* a dedicated and targeted attack - on the credit card system.
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