Aurora Attacks are Simply Irresistible

After the large scale attack on Google and more than 100 other corporations late last year, research has shown that companies are defenseless. In a study by iSEC on response recommendation for “Aurora,” seven common patterns were identified. Many of these patterns center around common online practices.

A typical attack, says iSEC, would proceed something like “The attacker socially engineers a victim, often in an overseas office, to visit a…