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Monthly Incident Summary Reports: June - August 2006

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

Number of Agencies/Universities Reporting:

June 2006
Organization Type
Incidents
No Incidents
No Report
Total
Universities
32
15
16
63
Agencies
30
37
18
85

July 2006
Organization Type Incidents
No Incidents
No Report Total
Universities
36
19
8
63
Agencies
30
45
10
85

August 2006
Organization Type
Incidents
No Incidents
No Report
Total
Universities
32
19
12
63
Agencies
28
46
11
85

Types of Incidents:

Types of Incidents
Types of Incidents
June 2006
July 2006
August 2006
Actual Infections 927 1,610 1,434
Unauthorized Physical Access 481 1 0
Unauthorized Information Access 35 425 446
Web Site Defacement 0 10 3
Theft of Equipment 17 13 6
Theft of Information 0 8 2
Unauthorized Use/Misuse 50 170 172
Accidental Disruption 55 39 22
Disruption or Denial of Services (DOS) 74 131 54
Other 1,013 3,078 617
Total
2,652
5,485 2,756

Impact of Incidents:

Impact of Incidents
Month
Total Hours
Downtime Hours
Total Costs
Lost Data
June 2006 2,073 874 $96,546 0
July 2006 2,826 688 $79,842 0
August 2006 3,055 945 $107,696 1

Incident Profiles:

Incident Profiles
Month
Detected with IDS
Internal Source
External Source
June 2006
6,224,492
17,784
910,438
July 2006
3,734,671
22,606
1,407,000
August 2006
870,442
45,948
833,088

Malicious Code:

Malicious Code
Malicious Code
June 2006
July 2006
August 2006
Viruses/Worms
592,353
471,027
464,863
Logic Bombs
12
71
172
Back Doors
62
1,761
614
Other Malicious Code
572,367
1,046,126
380,576
Actual Infections
June 2006
July 2006
August 2006
Total Workstations/Hard Drives Infected
914
1,597
1,597
Total Servers Infected
13
13
46

Server Types (Number of Systems):

Server Types (Number of Systems)
Type of Systems
June 2006
July 2006
August 2006
Critical production applications and/or data
10
58
23
Critical administrative/support applications and/or data
47
54
30
Research applications and/or data 6 1
8
Academic applications and/or data 12 1
10
External use web servers 22,284 20,044
23,421
Internal use web servers 7 6
0
FTP Servers 805 647
599
Email Servers
1,117
535
956
Print Servers
1
4
1
Other Servers
14
194
656
Total
24,303
21,544
25,704

Response Activities and General Information:

Response Activities and General information
Question
June 2006
July 2006
August 2006
1. Number of times were incident response plans activated
81
149 29
2. Number of times disaster recovery plans activated due to security incident
2
1 0
3. Average hours from detection to containment
395
273 356
4. Incidents with response activity logs kept
155
243 183
5. Damage to agency/university IR assets
6
7 11
5a. Number of Assets restored
8
9 12
6. Number of incidents needed outside assistance
5
7 6
7. Number of incidents resulted in new security measures
122
123 176
7a. Number of patches installed
117
254 298
7b. Number security software installed
134
95 209
7c. Number of additional policies developed
5
1 6
7d. Number other
4
9 0
8. Number incidents resulted in proliferation
5
93 36
8a. Internal Systems
3
18 14
8b. External Systems
1
75 23
9. Incidents resulted in external public awareness
0
2 2
10. Number Incidents reported to law enforcement
3
4 3


Top Ten Viruses:

Top 10 Viruses
June 2006 July 2006 August 2006
SQL Slammer SQL Slammer Slammer
Erkez MyDoom MyDoom
Mydoom Netsky Erkez
Mytob Erkez Netsky
Netsky Iframe_CID!exploit Mytob
Generic Malware.alzip Mytob IR-Mocbot
Zafi a!zip Bagle
Bagle Sasser Phis-BranFraud
Bloodhound Bagle Beagle
Sasser Beagle Sasser

 

 
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