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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master

NRT-0440 MAC No Way to Protect Against Modern Cyberattacks:

Internet security researchers are warning that cyberattacks today have become so complex that there may be no real way to completely protect against them. Lance Spitzner, president of the Honeynet Project, said at a recent internet security conference in Kuala Lumpur that malicious software writers have been producing sophisticated codes, motivated mainly by the prospect of making millions of dollars from their exploits. "The techniques used by criminal hackers are changing so rapidly now that it's difficult to keep up with them," Spitzner said. "In the end, it's all about returns on investment [for the hackers] because, by changing their attacks, there is so much more money to make."

Spitzner said that in the past 18 months, "what has astounded me is not how sophisticated the tools are but how fast they have adapted and changed."

Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at security company F-Secure, agreed that malicious codes in the market today are much more advanced and stealthy than those previously seen. The latest iterations of man-in-the-middle attacks and banking Trojans are capable of stealing data from even the most careful of users, Hypponen said.

(http://www.zdnet.com.au 10SEP07)

Last Modified: Tuesday, 01-Apr-2008 21:46:15 EDT