Is APT After You?

January 20th, 2010 admin

Jeremiah Grossman made the following request via Twitter today: @taosecurity blog post request. Signs that an individual or organization is or may be an APT target. + other threat naming conventions Tough but great questions. I better answer, or Jeremiah will find me and apply Brazilian Jiu Jitsu until I do. Let me take the second question first. As I mentioned in Real Threat Reporting in 2005, “Titan Rain” became the popular term for one “intrusion set” involving certain actors. DoD applies various codewords to intrusion sets…


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