McAfee’s blog post:

Revealed: Operation Shady RAT

Symantec’s blog post is here:

The Truth Behind the Shady RAT

Some may tend towards considering McAfee’s (and by extension, Symantec’s) post as FUD-mongering. I don’t. I consider it a potentially useful example (if not evidence) of the sort of baseline attack activity that most (all?) security professionals know is there, but aren’t necessarily good at proving. I don’t think either are unreasonable hyping-up of OMGWTFCYBERATTACKS!, but rather representing the baseline level of nastiness that exists on the Internet and any Internet-connected machine must content with. The Internet is a nasty neighbourhood, that is just a fact.

The main question, in my opinion, is this:
Do the McAfee and Symantec blogs constitute enough evidence to convince those who scoff at the idea that there are Bad People out there doing Bad Things?

Our trip back home has been… While in the air from Fredericton, Air Canada sent us email to let us know our flight was cancelled. Apparently while we were in the air, AC completely lost their shit. Western air travel is messed up to and from Vancouver and Calgary. They put us on another flight, a huge Boeing 777-300. That’s all fine and good, but the delay might just push our carefully planned return timing into 3yo Freak Out territory.

In any case, it’ll be great to be home.

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