- Oct 28, 1999
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Go this from Littlewhitedog today:
This team of researchers has built an entire computer network and
completely wired it with sensors. Then it put the network up on the
Internet, giving it a suitably enticing name and content, and recorded
what happened. (The actual IP address is not published, and
changes regularly.) Hackers' actions are recorded as they happen:
how they try to break in, when they are successful, what they do
when they succeed.
The results are fascinating. A random computer on the Internet is
scanned dozens of times a day. The life expectancy of a default
installation of 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.
read whitepapers