http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/secu/article.php/3298191
I tend to be a gloomy gus about security issues, and probably the balance of security-related posts on this blog reflect that. However, there is a small pile of evidence accumulating suggesting that hacking attacks are having less effect and are shifting to service denial and similar exploits rather than actual theft. Improved security measures are seen as the reason behind this improvement, but this also masks the fact that the attacks are more sophisticated and coming faster on the heels of vulnerability discovery.
Something in the epidemiology models would have suggested this was the case -- so there is some cloud surrounding that silver lining after all.
Posted by jho at January 15, 2004 09:41 AM