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Re: Application-level Attacks


From: "Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:03:29 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Crispin Cowan wrote:

Attacks within the last few years. "contemporary" is not the deep part
of the question :)

Indeed, my question was going to be "What's application layer?"  Is SSL
application or transport?  RPC?

Note that I actually do believe that most attacks are now at the
application level. But I am looking for *evidence*, or at least a claim
I didn't just make up :) to back up this opinion.

Sniffer?

Paul
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