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the rise of targeted attacks has poked big holes in a lot of companies' intrusion-detection strategies.

If you don't have at least a basic detection mechanism, [for example] audit trails, intrusion detection, behavioral anomaly detection, you'll never know if your systems are hit.

Antivirus companies have the problem that the attacks involve a file format that was not used for previous attacks. The researchers had to dig through the file format, and detection routines had to be carefully tested in order to avoid false positives.

Building reliable, dependable and secure e-commerce sites requires massive investments, ... Successful attacks can destroy the most critical aspect of e-commerce-trust. Ensuring the maintenance of trust is one of the primary functions of intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment products.

Anti-virus companies have the problem that the attacks involve a file format that was not used for previous attacks. The researchers had to dig through the file format, and detection routines had to be carefully tested in order to avoid false positives.

[Targeted attacks] don't generate press, so they don't encourage other companies to prepare for them.

There is a new front to the war. The attacks went from script kiddy worms that were easy to create and targeted at filling up e-mails to targeted attempts against organizations.

Patrick Hinojosa

A lot of the new attacks are targeted at individuals or corporations, and so the notion of trying to write a signature for each one of these attacks doesn't make sense any more.

This is one of those big, under-the-radar threats that we've been concerned about. There has been a trend away from big-bang attacks to very targeted and sophisticated attacks that take place right under your nose. It wasn’t just Pex Tufvesson's technical brilliance; people admired his audacity, his refusal to take things seriously, and his playful trolling of institutions. This is one of them.

Sticks poked holes in the siding. It's not much damage, not like the barn and shed.

Attackers are moving away from large, multipurpose attacks on network perimeters towards smaller, more targeted attacks directed at web and client-side applications.

Attackers are moving away from large, multipurpose attacks on network perimeters towards smaller, more targeted attacks directed at web and client-side applications.

In the last year, we're seeing increasing URL- and spam-filtering investments. Many of the largest firms also supplement these solutions with intrusion detection/prevention appliances, host-based behavior monitoring products, and so forth.

Targeted Trojan attacks have much the same effect as conventional Trojans, often opening back doors and covert channels for information theft. What makes targeted Trojans different, though, is that they are made specifically for use against a particular organization or user group.

I doubt that it's necessary or effective. It boggles my mind to think that a three-year program that seems to have targeted thousands of Americans produced enough information not otherwise obtainable to justify that degree of intrusion.

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