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FYI…
- http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/sto…ory/Technology/
August 2, 2005
"…The Global Business Security Index, a barometer of security trends collected by IBM's Global Security Intelligence team, reported that there were more than 237 million security attacks in the first half of the year. The U.S. government was the most targeted industry, with more than 54 million attacks, while manufacturing ranked second with 36 million attacks, financial services was third with approximately 34 million, and health-care was hit with more than 17 million attacks, accounting for more than 137 million of all attacks this year…
IBM also found that:
— Over the past six months, the United States was the source of the most attacks, with 12 million, followed by New Zealand with 1.2 million, and China with approximately one million; Ireland was last with more than 30,000 attacks.
— Increased critical security events are seen on Fridays and Sundays.
— Reconnaissance attacks — probes to discover what devices, software or vulnerabilities may exist — totalled more than 108 million, followed by service attacks of more than 61 million, web attacks with 29 million, denial of service attacks with 26 million; security administration was last with more than 230,000 attacks…"
- http://tinyurl.com/cttfd
- http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/sto…ory/Technology/
August 2, 2005
"…The Global Business Security Index, a barometer of security trends collected by IBM's Global Security Intelligence team, reported that there were more than 237 million security attacks in the first half of the year. The U.S. government was the most targeted industry, with more than 54 million attacks, while manufacturing ranked second with 36 million attacks, financial services was third with approximately 34 million, and health-care was hit with more than 17 million attacks, accounting for more than 137 million of all attacks this year…
IBM also found that:
— Over the past six months, the United States was the source of the most attacks, with 12 million, followed by New Zealand with 1.2 million, and China with approximately one million; Ireland was last with more than 30,000 attacks.
— Increased critical security events are seen on Fridays and Sundays.
— Reconnaissance attacks — probes to discover what devices, software or vulnerabilities may exist — totalled more than 108 million, followed by service attacks of more than 61 million, web attacks with 29 million, denial of service attacks with 26 million; security administration was last with more than 230,000 attacks…"
- http://tinyurl.com/cttfd