Surprise -- the underlying technology matters less to an attack's success than basic human determination
InfoWorld | Oct 28, 2014When a potentially major security flaw gets announced, à la SandWorm, Shellshock, and Heartbleed, those of us in the computer security field can’t be sure it’s a “big one” that would attack or compromise the majority of the computers in the world or your enterprise. Whether the technical methods are familiar or novel, most of the discovered attack methods don’t go big.
Featured ResourceWe’ve had lots of “big ones” in the past. The Robert Morris worm of 1988 infected around 6,000 computers. That doesn’t sound like a lot today, but back then, it represented about 10 percent of the computers hooked to the Internet. Since then, far bigger and faster-spreading worms appeared, most notably Michelangelo, Code Red, Melissa, SQL Slammer, ILoveYou, and Blaster.
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