Dan Hubbard Quotes (10 Quotes)

Usually these things peak around the time taxes are due. Basically it's another timely current event that's on top of people's lists and another lure to deceive people into giving away credentials in some way.

One of the unique things about this Trojan is that it appears to be using a toolkit called Yoda that allows the author to create pseudo-polymorphic code. It's a way to thwart anti-virus signatures.

We have had only one report from the field on this attack.

Five years ago we set a goal of having 1 trillion in assets under management by the year 2005. We've reached that goal four years ahead of schedule. When we sat that goal, we had 125 billion in customer assets.

The code is almost verbatim with what we saw in early August used in an Iraqi news scam.

In recent years with the airline restructuring, we think there is less disparity at the top of the pay scale.

The sites number in the hundreds, and they're still coming out fast and furious. The potential for a major outbreak is there. There's no patch from Microsoft, and there are a number of kits online that allow easy exploit building.

Although the ability of these exploits to spread is mitigated by the fact that they're all Web based so far, the potential for a more widespread attack is there.

It puts a bunch of code on a site that not only detects what browser the victim is running, but then selects one of seven different vulnerabilities to exploit, depending on how well patched the browser is.

The way these tax attacks work is that they literally send to millions of e-mail addresses, and they only have to hit a small percentage of those people to be successful.