Whale - probably the most complicated virus ever written. So intricate that it crashed any machine you ran it on within a few seconds.
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/07/22/whale-yacht022.html > > "Whale" attacks are a seriously underestimated physical security threat. > Very few > companies have business continuity plans addressing this threat. Security > management has not yet properly produced policy template documents addressing > the issue. Access control of the Cape waters is not properly dealing with > the > matter. Sailboats and other small craft are broadcasting their locations > without > encrypting the information, so whales (and sharks) are able to intercept the > data. > A properly constituted security architecture would prevent such issues. (The > original "Whale" was one of the earliest polymorphic viruses, creating a few > dozen > variants.) Our undersea cable communications infrastructure is definitely > vulnerable to these creatures. Operations personnel do not have proper > incident > response training for these events. And what are the legal and > jurisdictional issues > of South African whales attacking ships of other nations? > > ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) > [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > The World Youth Congress was the greatest thing that ever > happened [to Ghana], so I was surprised to learn [later] that it > was a CIA front. I may be the only person you will ever meet who > is indebted to the CIA. - Stephen Lewis > victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html > http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ > http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://twitter.com/rslade > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
