Time to change your Underwear
2001-06-16 02:51:26+00 by TC 2 comments
Bruce Schneier is a pretty nice guy although a bit suspicious, anyhow he has given permission to post snipets of his cryptogram news letter provided he is credited and linked So this little bit of info made the hair on the back of my neck stand up...
"The results are fascinating. A random computer on the Internet is scanned dozens of times a day. The life expectancy of a default installation of Red Hat 6.2 server, or the time before someone successfully hacks it, is less than 72 hours. A common home user setup, with Windows 98 and file sharing enabled, was hacked five times in four days. Systems are subjected to NetBIOS scans an average of 17 times a day. And the fastest time for a server being hacked: 15 minutes after plugging it into the network."