[54804] in North American Network Operators' Group
Less than 2% of computer attacks on military are successful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Jan 17 04:23:46 2003
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:23:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
After last weeks spam run on Iraq, the US military and NIPC are
concerned Iraq might be behind a rise in electronic attacks
against government and military networks.
The assessment said recent computer disruptions have included Web
defacements, "denial of service" attacks that can disrupt or paralyze
a network, and hacking "probes" and "scans" aimed at testing the
vulnerability of a network.
But the article also says less than 2% of the "attacks" resulted
in a successful intrusion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/technology/17HACK.html
