RE: Pope moves against hackers

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: Steve W. Manzuik <steve () entrenchtech com>

> The Vatican has revealed it has taken on a team of experts to
> protect the Pope's website which is attacked by some 10,000 viruses
> a month and at least 30 mainly American hackers every day.

So they obviously mean the attacking IP was an American IP.  This of
course doesn't mean that the attacker was an American.  10,000 viruses
a month? How did they determine that these were targetted attacks?

> "Fortunately, up to now no-one has managed to penetrate the Pope's
> site thanks to a highly efficient team of specialists charged with
> anti-virus protection who have always managed to block hackers'
> emails," said Archbishop Claudio Celli, secretary for the
> administration of the Holy See's heritage.

Ahhh, and all emails with a virus attached to it are from hackers
(sarcasm..).  This gives me the visual of a bunch of guys sitting
around terminals looking at sniffer output for suspicious activity.  
Something tells me that this isn't the case.

> "Young Americans are the most common and aggressive of hackers
> around the world seeking to cross the Vatican's e-borders," he
> continued.

Wow, they must have pioneered some new uber technique to identify the
age, race, and sex of an attacker just by their IP address. 
(even more sarcasm)
 


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