[42] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Re: Watcher: A "Smart"& Nasty Sniffer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James O. (Jim) Truitt)
Fri Mar 31 15:09:33 1995
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 11:10:45 -0500
To: ids@uow.edu.au
From: jtruitt@iu.net (James O. (Jim) Truitt)
Reply-To: ids@uow.edu.au
Your comment is right on. Everyone is aghast at the "visible" hacker
attacks. No one seems to be aware of the "invisible" insider attacks. I
shiver to think how they would react if they had hard solid numbers on
insider abuse/misuse.
JT
>This is obviously "tease 'em in-the-shadow-of-Satan" marketing, but it is
>in the nature of things that a few hundred clever kids will sit down to
>write comparable software after they read this announcement. Now consider,
>what percentage of real threats come over the Net, and what percentage are
>homegrown <behind the firewall> among disgruntled employees?
