“There is something new on the horizon, and it’s pretty
frightening. Take all the power of a thousand-system network and
combine it with the stealth and capabilities of a Trojan Horse
program, and you’ve got the latest generation of computer
threat.”
“The security community was first made aware of the existence of
such a threat when RingZero reared its ugly head. … A methodical,
multisource scan of ports 80, 8080, and 3128 was noted by all sorts
of network administrators, on all sorts of networks. … Luckily,
network operators did something that attenuated the threat: they
talked about it.”
“The threat posed by RingZero was alleviated somewhat by a
process loved by scientists and the computer community, and
despised by the security community; open discussion. … In the
security world, this is known as airing your dirty laundry, and is
tantamount to first-degree heresy. In a world where protecting
information means the difference between staying employed and
becoming an industry leper, asking for help is a practice that is
slow to take hold.”