Re: On classifying attacks

[john mullee <jmullee () yahoo com>]

--- Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:

> David M Chess wrote:
> > But many of us *love* to argue about taxonomies and word meanings (it's 
> > cheaper than booze anyway).  *8)
> 1. A user-assisted remote attack.
> 2. A client-side remote attack.
>
> I.e., we can add "user assisted" as a class like "local" and "remote", 
> or add types (think ICMP here).

> Vulnerability Types [Optional]
> 1. Client-side
> 2. User-assisted

> Questions remain:
> - How does one treat an SQL injection?

I think essentially the problem of trojans, phishes and poisoned data is that of masquerading.

For trojans, the problem is e.g. lack of system-attention key; for Phish, lack of authentication
protocols etc; and for injection, the vulnerability is in the input data scrubbing.

Injection requires a bug in one place: the (web-)application code.

What follows is leveraged hijacking, with perhaps masquerading as an intermediate step.

.02

john



                
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