RE: hello

From: Oliver Petruzel (opetruzelat_private)
Date: Sat Apr 06 2002 - 23:37:37 PST

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    I think what he seeks are power-point presentation bullet-points... such
    as "x number of companies reported bind hacks in 2001" etc...
    
    SANS is a good start for info, and projects at secfocus are good
    too...stats abound... 
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Valdis.Kletnieksat_private [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieksat_private] 
    Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:59 PM
    To: xzchen
    Cc: vuln-devat_private
    Subject: Re: hello 
    
    On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 10:16:19 +0800, xzchen <xzchenat_private>
    said:
    
    > Hi,I am engaged in the vulnerability assessment. Now I am lack of
    > the statistic results about the exploting incidents of some
    > vulnerabilities.How can I get some statistic data about the
    > exploting incidents of some vulnerabilities? Please provide me some
    > reference. Thank you.
    
    Vulnerability assessments are usually made on a specific
    program/site/network.  As a result, simply throwing statistics like
    "18 million hosts were infected with Nimda" doesn't tell you
    *ANYTHING* about whether your target is vulnerable to anything, Nimda
    or otherwise.  On the other hand, *IF* your network contains Linux
    systems, Dave Dittrich's estimate of how long an unpatched Linux
    system survives may be useful information.
    
    -- 
    				Valdis Kletnieks
    				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
    				Virginia Tech
    



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