Questions:
1. Why were the trojan attacks so successful at infiltrating the security measures that most UK companies and government agencies had in place?
answer: Because during the time of thier survey, security experts do not know whether these machines were intermediaries or the original source of the atacks and that's the reason, the National Security Co-ordination Centre(NISCC) did not release any additional information about the perpetrators, and the only press was left behind to speculate the assaults. From this action the circulation of the attack was very strong, and thats the reason why the NISCC make very difficult to cope up this viruses.
2. Why did the NISCC believes that these attacks were different from general computer viruses ans other cyberassaults that have been launched in the past?
answer: They believe that this attacks is different from other attacks, because from thier findings they discovered that, this virusis can penetrate antivirusis software and communicate with the perpetrators through common ports. This means that the viruses can gather much data with comminication with the attacker. And Firewalls and Routers may not be safe from this attack.
3. a. What kind of information did the perpetrators gather from thier targets?
b. What did the information indicate about the nature of thier assaults?
answer: a. By the attacks of the Trojans viruses, the perpetrators can gather much information like: passwords and Datas. The Trojan virus will gather Datas and Information from the employee's computer and sending it back to the attacker. This is how they get information from employee's and some other public and private companies.
b. Other experts have long predicted a move toward targetted social engeneering that exploits variations of current viruses to access information of key organization and industries worldwide. They indicated that this Trojans, are a sign of things to come.
