Matthew Monte > Quotes

“Persistence is the first defensive action of the Attacker, the consolidation and securing of future access. Vulnerabilities are unreliable. First, they are of unknown duration: some may last years, others a few weeks. Second, they do not always work. Depending on the type of vulnerability and the skill of the Attacker, success rates can vary from 1 in 10 to every time. Staking future access on a vulnerability is a poor plan.”
― Matthew Monte, Network Attacks and Exploitation: A Framework

“Sometime in 2009, a few Romanians compromised the sandwich chain Subway. Over the next 2 years, they managed to steal somewhere between $3 million and $10 million, an amount that would allow them to eat fresh for quite some time.”
― Matthew Monte, Network Attacks and Exploitation: A Framework