RE: [fw-wiz] Transitive Trust: 40 million credit cards hack'd

From: Marcus J. Ranum (mjr_at_ranum.com)
Date: 06/20/05

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    To: "Behm, Jeffrey L." <BehmJL@bvsg.com>, "David Lang" <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:06:01 -0400

    Behm, Jeffrey L. wrote:
    >You don't gotta outrun the bear, just
    >the guy next to you.

    That's the strategy that's gotten us where we are today.

    It works great assuming the bear count remains a constant and the
    bears don't suddenly all come equipped with overdrive. It also
    assumes that bears exercise reason in selecting their targets.
    Next-gen malware breaks all of those assumptions.

    mjr.

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