RE: Attack Paradigm Shift?

["Roger A. Grimes" <rogerg () cox net>]

Well, certain attacks like Slammer, Nimda, most worms and viruses, and any
other sort of scanning or randomly traveling piece of malware, are by nature
not targeting any one specific company.

Of course, maybe the cracker is trying to target one host and is using the
wide-spread attack as a ruse (i.e. liken to the case of the lady who killed
8 other innocent people in her successful effort to kill her husband in the
one of the Tylenol-poisoning cases in 1982).

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew.Patrick () kemperinsurance com
[mailto:Andrew.Patrick () kemperinsurance com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 3:05 PM
To: honeypots () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Attack Paradigm Shift?



"targeted attacks against its customer base last year reached 40 percent
[of total
attacks], far above the expected 15 percent."

I would be extremely curious regarding exactly what they mean by
"targeted"....

I get pummelled by all manner of attacks every day, how can I be certain
whether these are "targeted" or not??

Andy Patrick
KTS Security & Contingency Planning
x3621






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