On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> 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.
> And the number one attack type is the ASAPI Buffer Overflow, which is what
> the Code Red exploits.
Just thought I would point out that securityfocus.com is not an Australian
company and has been on the scene for years -- they run the bugtraq
mailing list that much of this stuff is first reported on. A reliable
source I would think.
Then again, 64,000 is a very round number.
Mikal
--Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com)
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