PCs targeted by hackers every 39 seconds
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| Cukier and two of his graduate students, Daniel Ramsbrock and
| Robin Berthier, set up weak security on four Linux computers
| with internet access, and recorded what happened as the
| individual machines were attacked.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2174279/pcs-targeted-hackers-every
That is some serious drainage of network resources/capacity/bandwidth (and
electricity wasted). Where does it all come from? Here's just one
possibility. The latter link is more interesting perhaps.
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
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| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
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| the BBC reports. "Despite all that, the net is still working,
| which is pretty amazing. It's pretty resilient," he said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
How Long Does It Take To Catch A Computer Virus?
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| Would you believe only 8 seconds?
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| In fact, after only 8 seconds, the unsuspecting little rascal was
| undergoing the machine equivalent of being turned into a "Pod
| person from the planet Mars!" First, it was hit by Sasser, one of
| the fastest spreading worms on the Internet. Then it started
| downloading strange programs from mysterious internet addresses.
| Then it started looking for other machines to infect.
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| Within five minutes, the little rapscallion was running so many
| malicious programs that it was running totally choked up and its
| CPU was 100% occupied performing virus-related tasks.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197002712&subSection=All+Stories
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