On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:34:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hi, > > The WMF threat was and continues to be important. > But Im curious to know why we didnt observe any important attack on > Internet?
Maybe there was one, and we didn't notice. > WMF was a perfect Zero-Day attack and a scenario like the blackout of > Internet was possible but nothing or no important attack! Only if that was a goal... > All hackers become white-hat? No. Many of the hackers depend on the net being *UP* to make their money. If the net is down, it's harder to go hacking for credit card numbers, or threaten to DDoS a specific site, or all the other ways the hackers pay their rent. Who benefits if the *entire* net is down? (Think about that for a while....) > Or they attacked and we didnt see anything? Well, if *I* was a black hat, I'd have used the WMF hole to get a backdoor into a fairly limited number of machines that I intended to use for benefit. Just think - a few compromised PC's on the internal net of each of the hundred biggest banks... And I'd certainly want to be as invisible as possible while doing it.
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