Comments on: Covering Up Cyber Assaults

By: J.Noose

J.Noose — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:49:44 +0000

I disagree. Playing the game Uplink for half an hour is *not* a crash course in how hacking works. One might learn a little about concealing one’s physical location by “bouncing” a signal from Moscow to Tokyo to Seoul before attacking a target in Dallas. Thus the techs in Dallas would look for suspects in Korea or Japan when they should be looking in Russia.
There is a standard CISSP course. Tell your boss to pay for it. Take it and pass. Then you will have a basic knowledge of hacking.

By: Archchancellor

Archchancellor — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:55:00 +0000

As Mongo mentioned, the photo is from the computer game Uplink. For anyone who wants a crash course in how rudimentary hacking works, try playing the game for just 30 minutes and you’ll have a solid idea.

By: JE

JE — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:25:55 +0000

US technological expertise? Something like 60% of our engineers are foreign born — young Americans just want to smoke pot, skateboard, become marketing or psychology majors etc..
Whatever technological edge we still have is due to the fact that we were until recently (perhaps still are, but less so) a nice place to move too..

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:16:48 +0000

Who is to blame you ask WE ALL AHARE IN THIS ONE.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:03:54 +0000

Ali
I think you took a great first step on the path to friendship.
As for your attack. Based on what you said in the post, it looks like a botnet was used in the assault on your servers. That is becomming more common now days. There are an estimated 150 million computers around the world that have been compromised and have bots implanted in them. Sourcing the attack has become nearly impossible given the use of botnets.

By: Anjar Priandoyo

Anjar Priandoyo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:05:01 +0000

Nice information thanks, quite surprise see the number increased doubled even triple every year

By: Mongo

Mongo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:16:27 +0000

That picture is from the game Uplink. It’s a good game if anyone is interested.

By: pau

pau — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:14:38 +0000

Ali! Re-read your post,it doesn’t have a core!

By: pau

pau — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:12:34 +0000

Places such as military.com,navyseals.com,myspace.com are
heavily hacked already…I’ve been dealing with it on my ids etc…It’s usually VOIP Virtual etc.

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:12:00 +0000

maybe interesting for you !! i am a security admin for one of the IRANIAN biggest comapny (yes your old enemy !!! ha ha ha). one of our servers was under attack for 2 day , someone tried to extract info about company activity that is publicly accessible but not contain sensitive information.the attack was not DOS , that was some kind of unauthorized access.the interesting thinngs was attack was sourced from almost 30 counrty in different region.hard to find who is really behind the attack but we find the proper way to block the attack.i belive the most threat against iranian computer system come from US.pretending that you are at high risk more than the countries you named them adversaries is like a joke.while most high-tech especially computer related technology come from US , most threats come from US.for etc what china can do while Windows code owned by MS and the most important , sophisticated linux kernel security , SELinux come from NSA !!! (i always disable it when i build my own linux kernel.who read the source code of SELinux entirely ? ) . but as your all time reader i awlays love your website.i think being enemy in cyber world is more better than reall war.who know , maybe we , in near future become friends.thks