News from PANUG/BizNix - December 19, 2002
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Digital Attacks Against U.S. Rise in November
submitted by Steve Coan

The number of digital attacks in the United States rose by
13 percent in November despite an 8 percent decline worldwide,
according to a London-based security firm called mi2g. They
counted 6,642 attacks in November against the United States,
accounting for half of all the attacks worldwide that month.
So far this year, according to mi2g's tracking, attacks against
the United States exceeded the next four most targeted victims
combined. Mi2g nodded to the recent CERT data released in
November showing that the highest percentage of major new
vulnerabilities impact Linux and that new Windows vulnerabilities
were on the decline BY THAT YARDSTICK. Nonetheless, mi2g found
that THE MOST ATTACKED OPERATING SYSTEM IN NOVEMBER REMAINED MS
WINDOWS AT 67% or 9,945 of all attacks. Read more at ENTMag:
http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=021216RN-Digital_Attacks

[Ed: Clearly that yardstick is the wrong way to measure
system security problems.]