NYT covers China cyberthreat

Thu Feb 21 01:48:19 UTC 2013

Failure to understand reality is not reality's fault.

On February 20, 2013 at 09:10 calin.chiorean at secdisk.net (calin.chiorean) wrote:
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 > If I didn't miss any part of the report, no *nix is mentioned.
 > 
 > I'm a *nix fan, but why they (when I say they, I mean an attacker, not necessary the one in this document) should complicate their life, when all tools are available for windows os, you just have to compile them.
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > Calin
 > 
 > 
 > ---- On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:02:35 +0100 Scott Weeks  wrote ---- 
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 > > 
 > >Be sure to read the source: 
 > > 
 > >intelreport.mandiant.com/Mandiant_APT1_Report.pdf 
 > > 
 > >I'm only part way through, but I find it hard to believe that 
 > >only micro$loth computers are used as the attack OS. Maybe I 
 > >haven't gotten far enough through report to find the part 
 > >where they use the *nix boxes? 
 > > 
 > >scott 
 > > 
 > >
 > 

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