[51967] in North American Network Operators' Group
Just another day on the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Sep 10 23:07:56 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:07:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"Experts predicted that Wednesday is likely to be just another day on the
Internet, and if anything a quiet day for cybercriminals."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=7&cid=581&u=/nm/20020911/tc_nm/attack_tech_cyberthreat_dc
What is a "normal" day on the Internet?
http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2001/BackScatter/
Measured 12,000 attacks over a three week period, or 570 attacks a day.
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Filings/Network_Outage/
There is a significant outage on average every 2-3 days.
