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There's a right time and a wrong time to exploit a vulnerability – and according to researchers from the University of Michigan, that's something that can be worked out ahead of time. According to this paper Timing of cyber conflict, available from PNAS, knowing exactly when to launch a digital assault is something that can be …

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  1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

    The Great Game is just begun for the New Year. GOD knows what the Big Picture will bring in 2015

    While none of this will come as a surprise to experts in the field, the aim of the Axelrod-Iliev paper seems to be to help policy-level people understand the cyber-attack landscape with a minimum of technical grasp.

    Understanding it is one thing .... being able to do anything at all to mitigate or steer a cyber-attack, is something completely different, and in an increasingly well connected global metadatabase, a vector/sector which is growing with/in intelligence at a prodigious, and most likely, uncatchable rate.

  2. Crazy Operations Guy

    Patched in the future even if the exploit isn't used

    Yeah, like that happens...

    1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

      Re: Patched in the future even if the exploit isn't used

      Patched in the future even if the exploit isn't used

      Yeah, like that happens... ... Crazy Operations Guy Posted Tuesday 14th January 2014 17:58 GMT

      Yeah, that easily happen , COG.

  3. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

    Quit fucking about and get your acts together

    Cats got your tongues? ... or do you finally realise what you be confronted with?

    And that is me being kind and not putting the boot and reboot in ........for now?

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