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It is amateurish, especially the use of the term "hacking processes". The term "hacking" used in a network security context should be reserved for the popular press, and for street talk, not for formal writing nor a precise definition.
It is an exact copy from the reference text. The reference seems questionable to me, I am not sure of the process of determining a good authoritative reference, but this doesn't seem like one.
In
this blog post, Richard Bejtlich writes: "APT is not an effort -- it's a proper noun, i.e., a specific party." This seems to mean that saying "APT" is not like saying "organized crime", it's like saying "the Mafia" -- the name of a specific organization. Thoughts? --
FOo (
talk) 07:09, 17 April 2010 (UTC)reply
That's because historically APT was, and possibly still is used to refer to a specific actor (i.e. a person, group, or country) that was seen to be attacking the USA. Marketing caught on to the military term and started to use it to help market products, this lead to a lot of confusion and twisting of what APT is/means.
So it depends on the context that APT is being used: -
- If it's a press release from a company that got compromised, it means it was any attack that they failed to stop (either attack was sophisticated or because their defences were weak, they imply the former but it could well be the latter).
- If it's the US military then it may be a particular threat actor.
- If it's marketing/sales they are trying to hype there product to say it can stop the attacks that have been engineered to bypass all the other defences (e.g. their competitors' products). — Preceding
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124.169.137.63 (
talk) 13:07, 4 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Capitalization
The title of this article should be "Advanced persistent threat". I would move the article, but it looks like moving articles became a special permission at some point when I wasn't paying attention.
modify 03:56, 28 August 2011 (UTC)reply
Never mind -- found the move link hiding in a dropdown UI element.
modify 04:17, 28 August 2011 (UTC)reply
Completely incorrect
This article is completely incorrect. ADT refers to the malware, not the authors. — Preceding
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194.80.66.187 (
talk) 11:10, 23 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Doesn't explain much
What's all the "process" stuff in the first paragraph? "Process" has many different meanings depending on context, but it is unclear which one is used here.
The "Characteristics" section doesn't give any characteristics that distinguish APT from other computer threats. For instance, "Actions – The precise actions of a threat or numerous threats". So APT has actions, but so does any other threat. To make this a characteristic you have to explain what is special about the actions of APT vs non-APT threats. This section looks like bullet points copied from a Powerpoint presentation, but without the talk that the original presenter gave.
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A common misconception[who?] associated with the APT is that the APT only targets Western governments. While examples of technological APTs against Western governments may be more publicized in the West, actors in many nations have used cyberspace as a means to gather intelligence on individuals and groups of individuals of interest.[11][12][13] The United States Cyber Command is tasked with coordinating the US military's offensive and defensive cyber operations.
Someone has already added a "who" tag but I think the text shouldn't remain as it stands. Maybe NPOV isn't precisely the right description for the problem of this text, but either way it seems to be making an overly large and unfounded assumption. Unless someone clears it up or opposes it, I will remove or at least trim down this text later this week or next. Thanks.
60.248.185.19 (
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Should something be said in this article about Mandiant's designation of groups as UNC for uncategorized? It's a small detail, but that information is currently not found anywhere on Wikipedia except in the
Ghostwriter (hacker group) article, which I myself added.
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