[iwar] Historical posting


From: Fred Cohen
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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen 
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting

          

  I work for a company that provides anti-virus support/intrusion detection
to approx 60,000 personal. The threat may not always be to China alone, once
you get past the primary virus that is sent you have to begin looking at
trojans and any other limits they may push.

We all saw how quick TFN,Trinoo, and as Germans would say "Barbed Wire" made
it through our systems. We have to look at the possiblity any virus/trojan
they send can make it too the west in a matter of minutes, if they are fast
spreading I don't think it would be too long before we feel it.

The thought of any country attacking another country with
virus/trojans/backdoors would possibly set off an event that the west has a
hand in, not everyone who generates destructive/malicious programs
lives/works in other parts of the world.

China may be behind in virus protection which means the possibility of
servers here in North America being on the receiving end of an e-mail with a
virus is a possibility.

"I hope it is only a I Dare You story.

Glenn



From: Leo, Ross Ross.Leo@c...
To: 'iwar@onelist.com' iwar@onelist.com
Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 11:35 AM
Subject: RE: [iwar] News


>From: "Leo, Ross" Ross.Leo@c...
>
>The statement by the Taiwanese smacks of bluster and the "I dare you...".
>Given the long-standing history of "warring with words" between these two
>China's, and the free-flow of threats therein contained, this is really a
>non-news story.  It is news only because somebody used the magic word
>"cyber-war".
>
>In spite of the strong probability that Mainland China has more and better
>systems technology (especially in the Govt. and Military enclave) than the
>West may realise, I have lingering doubts that it would be robust enough to
>penetrate Taiwan's infrastructure, or withstand an initial or retaliatory
>strike from Taiwan.  My experience shows that at least in some circles
>within China antivirus measures are years behind the West.
>
>Of course, I could be wrong...
>
>
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