On 22 May 2007 14:51, Trei, Peter wrote:
> In fairness, its worth noting that the issue is also mixed up
> in Estonian electoral politics:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6645789.stm
>
> The timing of the electronic attacks, and the messages left by
> vandals, leave little doubt that
Bill Stewart wrote:
> At 01:04 PM 5/18/2007, Trei, Peter wrote:
>> If the Russians aren't behind this, who else should be suspected? It
>> isn't like Estonia has a wide selection of enemies. :-)
> There are three likely suspects
> - the actual Russian government (or some faction thereof)
> - Rus
Bill Stewart wrote:
> - Some teenage hacker who got annoyed at some other teenage hacker
> because they got into an argument on WoW or Myspace
> and decided to DDOS him
Some years back, I was on the receiving end of this type of scenario
bringing down connectivity for a small Europ
At 01:04 PM 5/18/2007, Trei, Peter wrote:
If the Russians aren't behind this, who else should be
suspected? It isn't like Estonia has a wide selection of
enemies. :-)
There are three likely suspects
- the actual Russian government (or some faction thereof)
- Russian Mafia for whatever reasons (
A while ago, I did a rough calculation that made
me state that 15-30% of all machines are no longer
under the sole control of their owner. In the
intervening months, I got some hate mail on this,
but in those same intervening months Vint Cerf
said 40%, Microsoft said 2/3rds, and IDC said 3/4ths.
At 6:34 PM + 5/20/07, John Levine wrote:
>I've heard nothing formal, but my strong understanding is a lot of US
government machines, at least if we're talking workstations on
non-classified nets, are in fact "0wn3d" at this point.
Well, here's an anecdote: at last year's CEAS conference,
Alex Alten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>This may be a bit off the crypto topic, but it is interesting nonetheless.
>
>Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329864981-103610,00.html
>
>Estonia accuses Russia of 'cyberattack'
>http://www.csmonit
>I've heard nothing formal, but my strong understanding is a lot of US
>government machines, at least if we're talking workstations on
>non-classified nets, are in fact "0wn3d" at this point.
Well, here's an anecdote: at last year's CEAS conference, Rob Thomas
of Team Cymru gave the keynote on the
Ivan Krstić wrote:
I think it's anything but surprising. There's only so much you can do to
significantly improve systems security if you're unwilling to break
backwards compatibility -- many of the fundamental premises of desktop
security are fatally flawed, chief among them the idea that all pr
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> What is interesting to me is that, even though things have nearly
> gotten as bad as they could possibly get, we still have seen very
> little real effort made to improve systems security (at least in
> comparison with what is necessary to make a big dent).
I think it's a
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:01:03PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
|
| "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > 1. Do you have any particular evidence that any significant
| > number of US .gov machines are bots? They may well be, just
| > I haven't heard this.
|
| I've heard nothing formal
"Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. Do you have any particular evidence that any significant
> number of US .gov machines are bots? They may well be, just
> I haven't heard this.
I've heard nothing formal, but my strong understanding is a lot of US
government machines, at least if we
Dave Korn wrote:
>On 18 May 2007 05:44, Alex Alten wrote:
>> This may be a bit off the crypto topic,
> You betcha!
>> but it is interesting nonetheless.
>>
>> Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329864981-103610,00.html
>>
>> Estonia
On 18 May 2007 05:44, Alex Alten wrote:
> This may be a bit off the crypto topic,
You betcha!
> but it is interesting nonetheless.
>
> Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329864981-103610,00.html
>
> Estonia accuses Russia of 'cybera
This may be a bit off the crypto topic, but it is interesting nonetheless.
Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329864981-103610,00.html
Estonia accuses Russia of 'cyberattack'
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0517/p99s01-duts.html
- Alex
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