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Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:11:21 +0530
And so their bush league by itself was responsible for all the penetrations that mandiant says they did? Which shows that they don't have to be particularly smart, just a bit smarter than their average spear phish or other attack's victim. On Friday, February 22, 2013, Jack Bates wrote:
On 2/21/2013 12:17 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:I'm not upset. I'm pointing out what Steven Bellovin said in just a few words: "This strongly suggests that it's not their A-team..."The A-team doesn't get caught and detailed. The purpose of the other teams is to detect easy targets, handle easy jobs, and create lots of noise for the A-team to hide in. Hacking has always had a lot in common with magic. Misdirection is a useful tool. Jack
-- --srs (iPad)
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- RE: NYT covers China cyberthreat, (continued)
- RE: NYT covers China cyberthreat Naslund, Steve (Feb 21)
- Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat Rich Kulawiec (Feb 26)
- Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat Kyle Creyts (Feb 26)
- Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat Adele Thompson (Feb 26)
- Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat Kyle Creyts (Feb 21)
- Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat Stephen Sprunk (Feb 21)
- Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat Miles Fidelman (Feb 21)
- Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat Jack Bates (Feb 21)
- Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 21)
- Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 21)
- Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat Michael Painter (Feb 22)