Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes
Eugen Leitl
eugen at leitl.org
Tue Nov 30 12:44:02 PST 2004
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/30/1932245
Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-30 20:05:00
from the takes-five-minutes-to-download-patches dept.
[1]Amadaeus writes "According to the latest study by USA Today and
[2]Avantgarde, it takes less than [3]4 minutes for an unpatched
Windows XP SP1 system to become part of a botnet. Avantgarde has the
statistics in [4]their abstract. Stats of note: Although Macs and PC's
got hit with equal opportunity, the XP SP1 machine was hit with 5
LSASS and 4 DCOM exploits while the Mac remained clean. The Linux
desktop also was impenetrable, but only was only targeted by 0.26% of
all attacks." See also our story on the [5]survival time for unpatched
systems.
[6]Click Here
References
1. mailto:raymondlai at gmail.com
2. http://www.avantgarde.com/
3.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-11-29-honeypot_x.htm
4. http://avantgarde.com/ttlnabstract113004.pdf
5. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/17/1347214&tid=172
6.
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5671&alloc_id=12342&site_id=1&request_id=4452725&o
p=click&page=%2farticle%2epl
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