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Monthly Incident Summary Reports: March - May 2006

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

Number of Agencies/Universities Reporting:

March 2006
Organization Type
Incidents
No Incidents
No Report
Total
Universities
34
21
8
63
Agencies
32
45
8
85

April 2006
Organization Type
Incidents
No Incidents
No Report
Total
Universities
37
19
7
63
Agencies
34
43
8
85

May 2006
Organization Type
Incidents
No Incidents
No Report
Total
Universities
32
14
17
63
Agencies
31
32
22
85

Types of Incidents:

Types of Incidents
Types of Incidents
March 2006
April 2006
May 2006
Actual Infections
2,704
2,127
1,547
Unauthorized Physical Access
12
12
33
Unauthorized Information Access
883
811
633
Web Site Defacement
4
1
2
Theft of Equipment
13
38
14
Theft of Information
0
1
3
Unauthorized Use/Misuse
200
355
260
Accidental Disruption
94
40
108
Disruption or Denial of Services (DOS)
280
181
53
Other
26
320
22
Total
4,216
3,886
2,675

Impact of Incidents:

Impact of Incidents
Month Total Hours Downtime Hours Total Costs Lost Data
March 2006
4,644
1,374
$179,161
1
April 2006
3,841
338
$554,200
0
May 2006
3,411
1,058
$136,696
0

Incident Profiles:

Incident Profiles
Month Detected with IDS Internal Source External Source
March 2006 6,967,715 82,355 779,356
April 2006 4,879,037 15,658 480,702
May 2006
2,930,198
14,556
677,539

Malicious Code:

Malicious Code
Malicious Code March 2006 April 2006 May 2006
Viruses/Worms 832,023 587,371 632,209
Logic Bombs 0 12 0
Back Doors 320 301 140
Other Malicious Code 333,924 300,403 692,894
Actual Infections March 2006 April 2006 May 2006
Total Workstations/Hard Drives Infected 2,670
2,073
 1,532
Total Servers Infected
34
54
15

Server Types (Number of Systems):

Server Types (Number of Systems)
Type of Systems March 2006 April 2006 May 2006
Critical production applications and/or data
15
15
20
Critical administrative/support applications and/or data
9
41
40
Research applications and/or data
1
0
10
Academic applications and/or data
10
8
11
External use web servers
22,019
8
20,847
Internal use web servers
11
6
15
FTP Servers
2,948
506
556
Email Servers
3,128,879
13
 127,273
Print Servers
3
0
 13
Other Servers
1,961
73
 87
Total
3,155,856
670
 148,872

Response Activities and General Information:

Response Activities and General information
Question
March 2006
April 2006
May 2006
1. Number of times were incident response plans activated
158
179
137
2. Number of times disaster recovery plans activated due to security incident
21
0
3
3. Average hours from detection to containment
387
238
354
4. Incidents with response activity logs kept
466
378
325
5. Damage to agency/university IR assets
13
11
11
5a. Number of Assets restored
13
11
9
6. Number of incidents needed outside assistance
24
28
4
7. Number of incidents resulted in new security measures
309
225
209
7a. Number of patches installed
307
230
225
7b. Number security software installed
311
231
208
7c. Number of additional policies developed
24
3
7
7d. Number other
9
2
2
8. Number incidents resulted in proliferation
13
13
6
8a. Internal Systems
8
6
6
8b. External Systems
5
5
0
9. Incidents resulted in external public awareness
9
10
4
10. Number Incidents reported to law enforcement
6
21
2


Top Ten Viruses:

Top 10 Viruses
March 2006 April 2006 May 2006
Slammer Slammer SQL Slammer
Mytop Generic Malware alzip Generic Malware.a!zip
Sasser Mytob Mytob
Netsky Netsky Netsky
Zatob Phising Bank Fraud Mydoom
Mydoom Zafi Vundo
Zafi MyDoom Randex
Bagle Bagle Phish-BankFraud
Randex Blaster Phish-Pay
MyWife Gael Mota

 
 
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