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Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () mykolab com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:42:25 -0800
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/2013 12:33 PM, sthaug () nethelp no wrote: >> The best response I've seen to all this hype and I completely agree with >> Scott: >> >> "Do ya think that you wouldn't also notice a drastic increase in >> outbound traffic to begin with? It's fun to watch all the hype and >> things like that, but to truly sit down and think about what it would >> actually take to make something like this happen, especially on a >> sustained and >> "unnoticed" basis, is just asinine. > > A drastic increase, definitely. Smaller increases (say a couple of Mbps > on a link normally carrying 100 Mbps or more), doubtful. > > It all depends on the volume of the information you're looking for. > More than you know. As someone who has seen firsthand, in real time, an adversary exfiltrate documents and other data out of an organization which he has gained unauthorized internal access -- real professionals know how to blend in with the noise & fly under the radar successfully. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 10.2.0 (Build 2317) Charset: utf-8 wj8DBQFSwywoq1pz9mNUZTMRAtFaAKDrbdnfnnPOP6G0DSRUxK4WmbtGhwCfRaQ/ V7MRFxg+dGwNKZgx4qK0Ogs= =XiSA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Paul Ferguson PGP Public Key ID: 0x63546533
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- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches, (continued)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Warren Bailey (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Clay Kossmeyer (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Randy Bush (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Sharif Torpis (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Florian Weimer (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Randy Bush (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Warren Bailey (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Jonathan Greenwood II (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Dobbins, Roland (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches sthaug (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Paul Ferguson (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Randy Bush (Dec 30)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Dobbins, Roland (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Warren Bailey (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Dobbins, Roland (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Randy Bush (Dec 31)
- Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches Florian Weimer (Dec 31)