[121318] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone see a game changer here?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Jan 15 10:22:50 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: Bruce Williams <williams.bruce@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <775e001a1001150607m178c58cdscff8587adccb895f@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:20:33 -0500
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Where are these quotes coming from ?
Marshall
On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Bruce Williams wrote:
> Part of the discussion of recent attacks by targeted email to
> individuals crafted to deceive that particular individual based on
> intelligence gathered for this use by governments.
>
> "The alleged attacks from China are troubling on many fronts. On
> Thursday, security firm McAfee released a report saying the program
> used to target U.S. firms involved a so-called "zero day"
> vulnerability -- one that was to this point unknown to the security
> community, and thus indefensible by anti-virus software. The flaw
> involved Microsoft's Internet Explorer, McAfee said. Microsoft says it
> is working quickly to provide a software patch. But the malicious
> software attacks other software flaws too, McAfee said, adding this
> ominous note: "There very well may be other attack vectors that are
> not known to us at this time."
>
> "These highly customized attacks known as advanced persistent threats
> were primarily seen by governments and the mere mention of them
> strikes fear in any cyberwarrior,=94 wrote McAfee's George Kurtz in a
> blog post today. =93They are in fact the equivalent of the modern =
drone
> on the battle field. With pinpoint accuracy they deliver their deadly
> payload and once discovered - it is too late=85All I can say is wow. =
The
> world has changed. Everyone's threat model now needs to be adapted to
> the new reality of these advanced persistent threats. In addition to
> worrying about Eastern European cybercriminals trying to siphon off
> credit card databases, you have to focus on protecting all of your
> core intellectual property."
>
> Mark Rasch, former head of the Department of Justice computer crime
> unit, called the attacks =93cyberwarfare,=94 and said it was clearly =
an
> escalation of a digital conflict between China and the U.S.
>
> As if the old threat models weren't bad enough...
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
