[54817] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Less than 2% of computer attacks on military are successful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kandra_Nyg=E5rds?=)
Fri Jan 17 11:41:19 2003
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kandra_Nyg=E5rds?= <kandra@foxette.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:40:13 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
From: "jnull" <jnull@truerouting.com>
> > But the article also says less than 2% of the "attacks" resulted
> > in a successful intrusion.
>
> 2% would be an embarrassingly large success rate for intrusion on a
> "secured" military network.
Not to mention the definition of "attack" the article seems to use. After
all, a DoS or a probe doesn't actually result in an intrusion, even when
they're successful.
- Kandra
