Re: APT definition

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:25 PM, security curmudgeon
<jericho () attrition org> wrote:

> : > As is "persistent".. sending a couple PDFs to employees over a one day
> : > period got the foot in the door of RSA. That is not "persistent" as far as
> : > anything I have seen or done.
> :
> : Yes, but it *is* persistent as we have seen these same targeted,
> : socially-engineered attacks for years now.
>
> Uh..
>
> If that is grounds for using "persistent", can you please enlighten us as
> to any attack that is NOT persistent?

I told you I don't like the term anyways. :-)

- ferg

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