Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes

[Eugen Leitl]

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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