Forwarded from: security curmudgeon <jericho@private> : http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_2982853 : : By Katy Murphy : STAFF WRITER : 08/29/2005 : HAYWARD Every morning, Thomas Dixon goes into his office at California : State University, East Bay, knowing that a million attempts will be made : - each hour - to break into the computer system he is charged with : protecting. So he gets 277 "attempts to break into the computer system" PER SECOND. That's over 150 megs of logs per hour at the absolute minimum, over 3.6 gigs of logs a day. Again, how often do we have to read these bogus stats in news articles? Why can't they simply explain what an "attempt" means exactly? I know the net is a bad place, and a significant percentage of traffic is malicious, but this stat seems completely out of line. : Dick Metz, vice president of administration and business affairs for the : university, said he didnt know whether the phisher was simply gaming the : system or trying to steal information. As far as he knows, no reports of : fraud or misuse of data have been made in connection with the break-in, : he said. Someone breaks into the machine, potentially steals 2,300 personal records, and he is called a 'phisher'?! Even buying into all the stupid buzz words for every type of computer crime, this isn't phishing. _________________________________________ Attend ToorCon Sept 16-18th, 2005 Convention Center San Diego, California www.toorcon.org
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