- attractiveness of targets
- Posted by academic_investigation@yahoo.com on December 7th, 2005
Hi. We are from a research university in the US and are conducting
research on computer system security breaches. We are following up on
a previous post and would appreciate your thoughts. (Thanks to those
who replied to the previous similar post.)
Our main question is what exactly makes one organization more
attractive than another when an attacker is selecting "victims"? There
may be many different motivations for an attack and we are interested
in
understanding the various dimensions that make an organization
attractive. We would appreciate any thoughts any of you have about
this. Feel free to reply to the newsgroup or to my email directly at
academic_investigation@yahoo.com.
Morris
- Posted by Unruh on December 7th, 2005
academic_investigation@yahoo.com writes:
Which university? Which department? Have you passed this research by your
committee evaluating Research on Human Subjects?
Ie, I do not believe you.
Why would you want a bunch of people's arrant guesses? Make up your own
guesses.
- Posted by theonesteve on December 8th, 2005
Unless...instead of guesses, this guy is harvesting email addresses for
spam usage...
- Posted by Winged on December 8th, 2005
academic_investigation@yahoo.com wrote:
Morris,
Easy,
The organization that doesn't patch regularly, has minimal security, no
monitoring, and no control over user activities. Why? Because they are
easy. Those who are alert and actively protecting their systems are hard...
Winged
- Posted by David H. Lipman on December 8th, 2005
From: "Winged" <Winged@nofollow.com>
| Morris,
|
| Easy,
|
| The organization that doesn't patch regularly, has minimal security, no
| monitoring, and no control over user activities. Why? Because they are
| easy. Those who are alert and actively protecting their systems are hard...
|
| Winged
Why do crooks steal from banks ?
That's where the money is at.
With some, obstacles will attempted to be overcome even if it is hard because the target has
the prize the hacker seeks.
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
- Posted by Donnie on December 8th, 2005
If you think their email is strange, what about their dialup connection?
donnie
- Posted by theonesteve on December 8th, 2005
I could see a university's research department having a dialup-only
connection for some jerk who's announced he wants to research how
hackers choose their targets. However, that email address is way too
phishy. If it truly were a research project at a US university, the
person would have an email account on that university's server (ending
in .edu, if nothing else). The wording of the message is a tip-off,
too...Americans don't usually identify themselves as US citizens unless
asked to...we assume that everyone knows we're in the US 
Not only
that, but who cares if the researcher is at an American university or
at a school in another country? The research ends up being about the
same.
- Posted by Unruh on December 8th, 2005
"theonesteve" <theonesteve@gmail.com> writes:
And anyone working at a university on a survey like this must pass the
surevey by their committee on research on human subjects, and the report of
that committee on the experiment must be made available to those human
subjects-- and participants in a survey are human subjects.
- Posted by Winged on December 9th, 2005
David H. Lipman wrote:
Winged
- Posted by Mimic on December 13th, 2005
academic_investigation@yahoo.com wrote:
Often its down to people doing a piss poor job at immitating someone
they bare no resemblance to.
--
Mimic
First day it opened I went down there, was doing a few laps and pulled
over and the manager comes over to me and says "Oi, mate! No
professionals." I said I'm not a professional. He said "Well, you should
be with moves like that you could be the best in Britain". I said, "No
thanks I'm making shit loads from computers".
[email: ZGF0YWZsZXhAY2FubmFiaXNtYWlsLmNvbQ==]
Help Stop Spam - www.hidemyemail.net
"I have come to realise that, only in death, will I find true perfection."
- Posted by Mimic on December 13th, 2005
theonesteve wrote:
Not very efficiently, so yeah, maybe they are .rotardian or something.
--
Mimic
First day it opened I went down there, was doing a few laps and pulled
over and the manager comes over to me and says "Oi, mate! No
professionals." I said I'm not a professional. He said "Well, you should
be with moves like that you could be the best in Britain". I said, "No
thanks I'm making shit loads from computers".
[email: ZGF0YWZsZXhAY2FubmFiaXNtYWlsLmNvbQ==]
Help Stop Spam - www.hidemyemail.net
"I have come to realise that, only in death, will I find true perfection."
