On Feb 20, 2013, at 9:07 PM, Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
On Feb 20, 2013, at 1:33 PM, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:39:42 +0900, Randy Bush said:
boys and girls, all the cyber-capable countries are cyber-culpable. you can bet that they are all snooping and attacking eachother, the united states no less than the rest. news at eleven.
The scary part is that so many things got hacked by a bunch of people who made the totally noob mistake of launching all their attacks from the same place....
This strongly suggests that it's not their A-team, for whatever value of "their" you prefer. (My favorite mistake was some of them updating their Facebook pages when their work took them outside the Great Firewall.) They just don't show much in the way of good operational security.
Mandiant apparently feels the same way: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/02/21/the-shanghai-army-unit-... --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb