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Monthly Incident Summary Reports: June - August 2004

Links to other reports are available on the Security Reports Homepage.

Section 1: June - August 2004
Number of Agencies and Universities Reporting:

June 2004
OrganizationType Incidents No Incidents Total
Universities 39 18 57
Agencies 39 45 84

July 2004
OrganizationType Incidents No Incidents Total
Universities 38 18 56
Agencies 43 35 78

August 2004
OrganizationType Incidents No Incidents Total
Universities 39 18 57
Agencies 43 33 76

Types of Incidents:

Types of Incidents June 2004 July 2004 August 2004
Actual Infections 1062 12120 6531
Unauthorized Physical Access 4 6 3
Unauthorized Information Access 8 4 4
Web Site Defacement 2 0 6
Theft of Equipment 14 7 10
Theft of Information 0 0 2
Unauthorized Use/Misuse 53 54 4018
Accident/Planned Disruption 37 55 36
Disruption or Denial of Services (DOS) 8 223 64
Other 8235 23676 56304
Total 9423 36145 66978

Impact of Incidents:

Month Total Hours Downtime Hours Total Costs Lost Data
June 2004 2541 589 82447 -
July 2004 3066 419 317609 2
August 2004 3339 924 164123 -

Incident Profiles:

Month Detected with IDS Internal Source External Source
June 2004 7160987 74119 7270664
July 2004 693238 42793 718990
August 2004 22975727 2132 1511915

Malicious Code:

Malicious Code June 2004 July 2004 August 2004
Viruses/Worms 3293707 4067808 2883552
Logic Bombs - 1 42215
Back Doors 2675 4813 2216
Other Malicious Code 254640 19577 416838
Actual Infections June 2004 July 2004 August 2004
Total Workstations/Hard Drives Infected 1043 12106 6503
Total Servers Infected 19 14 28

Server Types (Number of Systems):

Type of Systems June 2004 July 2004 August 2004
Critical production applications and/or data 4 6 19
Critical administrative/support applications and/or data 7 8 17
Research applications and/or data - 6 1
Academic applications and/or data 121 8 28
External use web servers 5363 6 9
Internal use web servers 4 2 5
FTP Servers 1 1 2
Email Servers 55032 61200 69115
Print Servers - 3 2
Other Servers 17 22994 14
Total 60549 84234 69212

Response Activities and General Information:

Question June 2004 July 2004 August 2004
1. Number of times were incident response plans activated 116 21 130
2. Number of times disaster recovery plans activated due to security incident 0 378 6
3. Average hours from detection to containment 396 1745 405
4. Incidents with response activity logs kept 743 19 4508
5. Damage to agency/university IR assets 22 19 17
5a. Number of Assets restored 25 6 15
6. Number of incidents needed outside assistance 3 281 7
7. Number of incidents resulted in new security measures 41 488 39
7a. Number of patches installed 402 152 176
7b. Number security software installed 76 7 34
7c. Number of additional policies developed 2 4 10
7d. Number other 24 277 27
8. Number incidents resulted in proliferation 153 134 86
8a. Internal Systems 68 146 75
8b. External Systems 86 4 11
9. Incidents resulted in external public awareness 1 4 15
10. Number Incidents reported to law enforcement 1 3 4

 

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