On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:19 PM, security curmudgeon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Paul Ferguson wrote: > > : On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & > : Hannah <[email protected]> wrote: > : > : > APT relativity is such that for any attacker there exists a victim for > whom the > : > attacker is more advanced and/or persistent > : > > : > https://twitter.com/#!/imaguid/status/57522111857700864 > : > : Ha! I like that one. > : > : Generally I hate the term "APT" because the definition of "Advanced" is > : misleading. > > 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. - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
