Firewall Wizards: Re: Application-level Attacks

[Crispin Cowan <crispin () immunix com>]

Danny wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:56:58 -0800, Crispin Cowan <crispin () immunix com> wrote:
>  
>
> > Shimon Silberschlag wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Today, when attacks are shifting towards using the already open ports
> > > on the firewall, at the application level,
> > >      
> > It is often said that contemporary attacks are migrating to
> > application-level attacks. Can someone point me to data backing this claim?
> >    
> How do you define contemporary attacks? All attacks except for those
> at the application-level?
>  
Attacks within the last few years. "contemporary" is not the deep part 
of the question :)
Note that I actually do believe that most attacks are now at the 
application level. But I am looking for *evidence*, or at least a claim 
I didn't just make up :) to back up this opinion.
Crispin

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