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| Subject: | Re: On classifying attacks |
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| Date: | Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:24:39 -0500 |
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 01:58 -0700, Crispin Cowan wrote:
Yet none of them capture the distinction Derek pointed out, and so perhaps we need a new term. We could say that attacks against connected programs like BIND and Gaim are "synchronous" and attacks that involve sending now for impact later such as e-mailed malware are "asynchronous".
I have seen the terms "active" and "passive" used quite frequently to differentiate between these two conditions. -- Dustin D. Trammell Vulnerability Remediation Alchemist Citadel Security Software, Inc.
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