Attribution Is Not Just Malware Analysis

January 21st, 2010 admin

In a recent Tweet I recommended reading Joe Stewart’s insightful analysis of malware involved in Google v China . Joe’s work is stellar as always, but I am reading more and more commentary that shows many people don’t have the right frame of reference to understand this problem. In brief, too many people are focusing on the malware alone. This is probably due to the fact that the people making these comments have little to no experience …


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