If anything I've seen a massive increase in the number of probes this summer. School's out. Kids are home. It's the 4th week of June and the kids are starting to get bored. They don't get their bandwidth from the school. They get their bandwidth at home. Almost everyone has cable or DSL now. Most schools have a T1 or less. Cable has the potential of getting you 2Mb/sec or more. I don't see many sploits because I have everything too tied down but I do see probes and I've seen a massive increase (I don't know numbers handy). If anything it's worse in the summertime. My $.02, Justin On 6/27/01 1:11 PM sarnoldat_private said... >Several weeks ago, I asked if more security incidents occurred during the >school year or during vacations, when students were more likely to be >away from their connected schools. > >I got one response from someone who says the incidents of hacking >attempts at his school goes down during the summer. > >I got two more responses from people who did not say that they have >knowledge one way or another -- only that the reasoning is flawed, or >that the original poster was talking about elementary school. > >So, with the one response with experience saying that summer time >implies less bandwidth implies fewer attackers, that is about 100%. It >is also a very small return. (And to think, my high school statistics >teacher was pretty adamant that a minimum of 30 responses is required >for good results. Only 29 to go! Hehe.) > >So, I guess we must wait for a more detailed study for conclusive >answers. :) > >Cheers! Seth -- Justin Shore, ES-SS ES-SSR Pittsburg State University Network & Systems Manager Kelce 157Q Office of Information Systems Pittsburg, KS 66762 Voice: (620) 235-4606 Fax: (620) 235-4545 http://www.pittstate.edu/ois/ Warning: This message has been quadruple Rot13'ed for your protection. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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