hi mh, I agree that the APT term is overused by the marketing types. In this case you can translate it as malware that infects a server or an ad network and is "served up" to unwitting victims in a drive by download. Neil, anything to add?
What would you call it haroon? gem On 3/26/11 8:14 AM, "Haroon Meer" <har...@thinkst.com> wrote: >Hi > >On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Gary McGraw <g...@cigital.com> wrote: >> Dasient protects the server side of the APT problem >> (especially when it comes to bad ads) > >Arguing over semantics and loosely defined terms is a recipe for a >circular flame-thread, but this statement seems wrong on many levels. > >I know every vendor (and his cousin who is currently thinking of >starting a business) is claiming to defend against APT, but this seems >like horrible buzzword misuse. > >/mh >-- >Haroon Meer http://thinkst.com/ >Tel: +27 83 786 6637 PGP: http://thinkst.com/pgp/haroon.txt > >_______________________________________________ >Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org >List information, subscriptions, etc - >http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l >List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php >SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) >as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. >Follow KRvW Associates on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates >_______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. Follow KRvW Associates on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates _______________________________________________
