Real-world security stats

[Jamie McCarthy <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Schneier is one of the net's leading security experts. His
Crypto-gram for this month includes some interesting statistics on
internet security.  Each individual sentence in the paragraph below
should fill your heart with cold terror :)

> A random computer on the Internet is scanned dozens of
> times a day.  The life expectancy of a default installation
> of a Red Hat 6.2 server, or the time before someone
> successfully hacks it, is less than 72 hours.  A common
> home user setup, with Windows 98 and file sharing enabled,
> was hacked five times in four days. Systems are subjected
> to NetBIOS scans an average of 17 times a day.  And the
> fastest time for a server being hacked: 15 minutes after
> plugging it into the network.

http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html
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 Jamie McCarthy
 jamie@mccarthy.vg