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Yes. Also, both. An attack is just a special case of building a computer system. Planning, building, and testing often take a while. Execution can happen ve
by patio11 12y ago
Yes. Also, both.
An attack is just a special case of building a computer system. Planning, building, and testing often take a while. Execution can happen very quickly indeed. If you time the attack from "start of execution of final payload script" through "last byte of data transferred by payload script" then many commercially significant attacks were over in milliseconds.
- niche 12y ago"An attack is just a special case of building a computer system." ~insightful
- some_furry 12y agoEverything patio11 said, but with an addendum: If you're trying to evade a behavioral Intrusion Detection System while exfiltrating the data, sending a small trickle over a long period of time is less obvious than sending 2 TB overnight and increases your odds of success.