Meanwhile, patching is an immensely insufficient response to dealing with highly foreseeable cyber attacks.
He said there had been no evidence an attack was "reasonably foreseeable" at the time.
The letter dated Oct. 7 also declassified an exchange from a closed Congressional hearing on Oct. 2 in which a senior intelligence official judged the likelihood of Mr. Hussein's initiating an attack in the foreseeable future as "low".
The host is called Bahnhof, and considering that the attacks against Wikileaks already forced its original host, PRG, to boot the site, and its second host, Amazon.com, to bow to political pressure to do the same, one wonders why Swedish Bahnhof would take on the challenge of hosting a site that will probably be under permanent attack for the foreseeable future.
The stark reality is that America will be living under the threat of nuclear attack for the foreseeable future.
The fact is that a DDoS attack is a foreseeable risk that applies to every single organization that operates its business, at least in some capacity, online.
Volexity believes that the Dukes are likely working to gain long-term access into think tanks and NGOs and will continue to launch new attacks for the foreseeable future".
Defendants also rely on Snellenberger v. Rodriguez, 760 S.W.2d 237 (Tex.1988), where the court held that a police officer's collapse while controlling a crowd at an auto-pedestrian accident scene, and his subsequent death from a heart attack, were not a foreseeable result of the negligence of the driver of the vehicle involved in the accident.
As Hoffman told me, "Terrorism is here to stay at one level or another for the foreseeable future". The fact that the attack was carried out in New York, which has "iconic stature for terrorist groups," also counters some of the recent ISIS losses, he said.
