Re: [LINK] Australia "worst hit" by worm's resurgence

From: Alan Hargreaves - Senior Tech Support Specialist (alanh@necrom.Aus.Sun.COM)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 13:03:15 EST


<cynic>
  And of course, the people being quoted have no vested interest
  whatsoever in making sure that a security problem gets more headlines
  in Australia do they? Especially when they get their company's name
  listed as "monitoring" the problem.
</cynic>

alan.

>
> >According to statistics which Miller sourced from security monitoring
> >company securityfocus.com, Australia has seen the greatest increase in its
> >rolling seven-day incident numbers, with 64,000 incidents reported here by
> >1 p.m Thursday, double yesterday's 30,000-plus figure, according to Miller.
>
> I can not IMAGINE 64,000 IT people reporting CodeRed to ANYONE.
>
> Where do they get these figures? 64,000 ... oh yeah, not hard to imagine.
>
> Sheesh.
>
>



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