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Monthly Incident Summary Reports: June - August 2007

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

Number of Agencies/Universities Reporting:

June 2007
Organization Type
Incidents
No. Incidents
No. Report
Total
Universities
38
19
0
57
Agencies
30
44
0
74

July 2007
Organization Type
Incidents
No. Incidents
No. Report
Total
Universities
38
19
0
57
Agencies
30
45
10
85

August 2007
Organization Type
Incidents
No. Incidents
No. Report
Total
Universities
36
18
0
54
Agencies
27
46
0
73

Types of Incidents:

Types of Incidents
Types of Incidents
June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
Actual Infections 792 1,857 807
Unauthorized Physical Access 3 3 0
Unauthorized Information Access 8,024 6,321 3,241
Web Site Defacement 5 6 9
Theft of Equipment 5 13 12
Theft of Information 1 0 1
Unauthorized Use/Misuse 19 99 1,101
Accidental Disruption 54 32 38
Disruption or Denial of Services (DOS) 3 8 4
Other 242 953 1741
Total 9,148 9,292 6,954

Impact of Incidents:

Impact of Incidents
Month
Total Hours
Downtime Hours
Total Costs
Lost Data
June 2007 1,618 407 $29,053 1
July 2007 1,787 255 $59,326 2
August 2007 1,948 477 $54,142 0

Incident Profiles:

Incident Profiles
Month
Detected with IDS
Internal Source
External Source
June 2007
18,859,572
40,274
1,973,677
July 2007
1,673,481,945
44,073
1,886,613
August 2007
15,752,314
26,422
2,104,142

Malicious Code:

Malicious Code
Malicious Code
June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
Viruses/Worms
550,668
463,481
329,596
Logic Bombs
0
1
0
Back Doors
31
4
1,479
Other Malicious Code
828,008
839,267
1,647,997
Actual Infections
June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
Total Workstations/Hard Drives Infected
781
1,842
773
Total Servers Infected
11
15
34

Server Types (Number of Systems):

Server Types (Number of Systems)
Type of Systems
June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
Critical production applications and/or data
8
9 6
Critical administrative/support applications and/or data
5
7
16
Research applications and/or data 5 0
1
Academic applications and/or data 11 15
11
External use web servers 13 4
9
Internal use web servers 1 4
4
FTP Servers 4,419 1,070
782
Email Servers
341
7
11
Print Servers
2
1
0
Other Servers
4,571
66
1,792
Total
9,376
1,183
2,632

Response Activities and General Information:

Response Activities and General information
Question
June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
1. Number of times were incident response plans activated
99
59 117
2. Number of times disaster recovery plans activated due to security incident
0
0 0
3. Average hours from detection to containment
259
532 269
4. Incidents with response activity logs kept
191
174 251
5. Damage to agency/university IR assets
2
5 5
5a. Number of Assets restored
9
4 2
6. Number of incidents needed outside assistance
3
14 2
7. Number of incidents resulted in new security measures
108
114 147
7a. Number of patches installed
87
98 144
7b. Number security software installed
91
101 138
7c. Number of additional policies developed
72
4 6
7d. Number other
1
4 1
8. Number incidents resulted in proliferation
13
12 48
8a. Internal Systems
6
7 20
8b. External Systems
7
6 28
9. Incidents resulted in external public awareness
3
10 1
10. Number Incidents reported to law enforcement
1
13 8


Top Ten Viruses:

Top 10 Viruses
June 2007 July 2007 August 2007
Downloader Downloader Downloader
Exploit-ANIfile.c JS/Downloader-BCZ W32/Zhelatin.gen!eml
VBS/Psyme JS/Downloader-AUD Trojan Horse
Exploit-MS06-014 JS/Wonka JS/Downloader-BCZ
JS/Downloader-AUD VBS/Psyme JS/Downloader-AUD
JS/Exploit-BO.gen W32/Zhelatin.gen!eml JS/Wonka
JS/Wonka Generic Downloader.z Winfixer
Trojan.Exploit.131 Trojan.Packed.13 Troj/Dloadr-BCP
Trojan Horse Downloader.Mislead/App Trojan.Pandex
W32.Netsky.P@mm Exploit-ANIfile.c W32/Bagle-Zip

 

 
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