Penetration Testing: Re: Looking for help against Chinese Hacking Team

["Adriel T. Desautels" <ad_lists () netragard com>]

Don't leave Distributed Metastasis out of the loop...


On Dec 15, 2008, at 11:43 PM, George M. Garner Jr. wrote:

> Harvey,
>
> Out of curiosity, how do you know that your attackers are Chinese,  
> and not
> some pimple-faced kid living next door to you?
>
> Once someone get's in there are a number of ways to persist beyond a
> reformat and reinstall.  It is pretty much standard practice today  
> for a
> rootkit to copy itself to your backup, to removable media, to  
> accessible
> file shares and other storage.  Is it possible that your "Chinese"  
> hackers
> keep getting in because they never left?
>
> Regards,
>
> George.
>
>
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