On Friday, 25 בJuly 2008 14:12, sara fink wrote: > Hacking into the system-> privelege escalation-> spamming (and this is only > one aspect after the system was hacked). DDos is a much nicer effect > from the hacker standpoint of view.
Actually, this is not quite so. The hackers/hacking scene has changed considerably during the past few years, and there is alot of money involved. Hackers get payed for creating these botnets of hacked computers (also known as drones, zombies ,etc..). They then use these "armies" for whatever the purpose of the person who hired them is. More often than not, this purpose is either spam or phishing. DDoS is rare nowadays, and most of the money comes from spam and phishing, at least when compared with DDoS. --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
