Originally posted here by gore
Just like the attacker has to stay a step ahead of the defender....

How many of you in this thread have actually rooted a box without ANYONE knowing about it?

How many people defend against that each day? (All of us I'd assume).

For each successfull attack there are 200 non.
A successfull attack doesn't mean much.. I could get admin on about half of the companies in my town without being detected... COULD I get detected, YES, by someone who knew wtf they were doing, but most of the IT people in this **** town are either "self taught" folks who don't know **** but have the arrogance of a teenage jock or people straight out of devry or the community college who passed with Bs and have no real knowledge of how to properly run a network... It's ****ing sad when I could run a better network if I worked there for a month with no real schooling compared to their 2 years of school.