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Re: whitehouse cyber strategy review
From: chris () blask org
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:02:14 -0800 (PST)
--- On Sun, 11/15/09, Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com> wrote:
Non-rhetorical question:
What do we think the infection discovery rate is, and do we think it has increased or decreased in recent years?
More important than discovering infectious agents is discovering *infections themselves* (which may be what you meant). I'm sure someone can quote some stats as far as discovering infectious agents goes, but at a certain level I think it becomes moot. The best we will ever do as far as developing signatures is to identify the popular attacks, but what we need to worry about as individual companies are the hand-crafted ones (just for me? how sweet!). Don't use your homemade malware against more than a handful of sites and it will almost never be caught up in the signature discovery net. My guess is that the rate of discovery for existing infections/compromises is meager, at best. Whatever number you could find I would inherently assume is at best half as bad as the situation really is. Most people are not equipped to determine that they have been infected at all, and as long as the lights keep blinking - even at a faster rate than legitimate usage would dictate - they aren't even going to look (don't make me invoke Heartland again). -chris _______________________________________________ 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.
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