If the protections rely on syntactic methods only, adversaries can effortlessly hide the attacks by modifying a tiny portion of the program code.
Zdechovský's decision not to report his threats to Facebook isn't all that surprising: The platform's standard protocol for reporting hate is so cumbersome, he said, it was easier for him to hide the attacks than report them.
"He was purposely hiding the attacks, I think," his father says.
The security firm found that in an attempt to hide the origin of the attack, it had been routed through computers in US universities which, the paper said, "matches the subterfuge used in many other attacks that Mandiant has tracked to China".
But experts say security for many computers in China is so poor that they are vulnerable to being taken over and used to hide the source of attacks which might originate elsewhere.
An enemy could easily hide the source of attacks by routing them through hijacked computers in another country or attributing them to independent criminals.
Using university computers as proxies and switching I.P. addresses were simply efforts to hide the source of the attacks, which investigators say is China.
Through the use of anonymizers and tunnels, one can hide the true actions of the attack and avoid filters that may be in place on firewalls or intrusion detection systems if security administrators know that someone intends to attack their system, they may create firewall rules that will block a range of IP addresses that include the location.
They are not supposed to hide the identities of the attackers or hide the organization that commits the attack".
Maya does suggest to Dan that they hide the details of the Khobar attack from Ammar, pointing out that he has been in isolation all this time, so he will have no way to know otherwise.
Those hiding from the attack should stay on the floor, away from windows and openings.
