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Monthly Incident Summary Reports
March - May 2007

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

Number of Agencies/Universities Reporting

March 2007
Organization Type
Incidents
No Incidents
No Report
Total
Universities
35
22
7
64
Agencies
33
43
7
83
April 2007
Organization Type
Incidents
No Incidents
No Report
Total
Universities
36
20
6
64
Agencies
36
41
8
83
May 2007
Organization Type
Incidents
No Incidents
No Report
Total
Universities
36
23
5
64
Agencies
32
46
5
83

Types of Incidents

Types of Incidents
Types of Incidents
March 2007
April 2007
May 2007
Actual Infections
841
582
311
Unauthorized Physical Access
2
8
0
Unauthorized Information Access
54
2
31
Web Site Defacement
2
3
2
Theft of Equipment
12
9
27
Theft of Information
0
0
3
Unauthorized Use/Misuse
260
190
129
Accidental Disruption
53
39
57
Disruption or Denial of Services (DOS)
311
6
11
Other
3,453
286
264
Total
4,988
1,125
835

Impact of Incidents

Impact of Incidents
Month
Total Hours
Downtime Hours
Total Costs
Lost Data
March 2007
3,103
323
$105,333
0
April 2007
2,925
391
$64,047
1
May 2007 1,311
401
$43,956
2

Incident Profiles

Incident Profiles
Month
Detected with IDS
Internal Source
External Source
March 2007
14,505,121
15,971
2,975,754
April 2007
18,538,552
166,836
931,531
May 2007 137,293,5844
42,023
124,468,829

Malicious Code

Malicious Code
Malicious Code
March 2007
April 2007
May 2007
Viruses/Worms
455,160
435,952
343,403
Logic Bombs
0
40
0
Back Doors
131
54
267
Other Malicious Code
425,381
288,953
1,998567
Actual Infections
March 2007
April 2007
May 2007
Total Workstations/Hard Drives Infected
783
553
294
Total Servers Infected
58
29
17

Server Types (Number of Systems)

Server Types (Number of Systems)
Type of Systems Affected
March 2007
April 2007
May 2007
Critical production applications and/or data
9
4
5
Critical administrative/support applications and/or data
14
11
11
Research applications and/or data
6
3
7
Academic applications and/or data
29
10
8
External use web servers
20,636
9
10
Internal use web servers
3
7
1
FTP Servers
569
668
736
Email Servers
47
137
6
Print Servers
4
1
1
Other Servers
182
268
92
Total
21,499
1,118
877

Response Activities and General Information

Response Activities and General information
Question
March 2007
April 2007
May 2007
1. Number of times were incident response plans activated
158
252
50
2. Number of times disaster recovery plans activated due to security incident
1
0
7
3. Average hours from detection to containment
738
186
287
4. Incidents with response activity logs kept
316
330
160
5. Damage to agency/university IR assets
22
21
10
5a. Number of assets restored
22
19
10
6. Number of incidents needed outside assistance
20
10
17
7. Number of incidents resulted in new security measures
218
156
124
7a. Number of patches installed
225
205
112
7b. Number security software installed
236
200
113
7c. Number of additional policies developed
5
2
9
7d. Number other
0
3
2
8. Number incidents resulted in proliferation
20
35
21
8a. Internal Systems
10
22
16
8b. External Systems
10
13
7
9. Incidents resulted in external public awareness
4
1
1
10. Number Incidents reported to law enforcement
6
7
21

Top Ten Viruses

Top 10 Viruses
March 2007 April 2007 May 2007
Downloader Trojan.Packed.13 JS/Downloader-AUD
JS/Downloader-AUD Downloader Downloader
Trojan Horse Trojan.Peacomm!zip Exploit-ANIfile.c
Exploit-MIME.gen.c VBS/Psyme Exploit-MS06-014
Exploit-MS06-014 W32.Netsky.P@mm JS/Wonka
JS/Exploit-BO.gen Exploit-ANIfile.c JS/Exploit-bo.gen
VBS/Psyme JS/Downloader-AUD VBS/Psyme
W32.Netsky.P@mm JS/Exploit-BO.gen W32.Netsky.P@mm
Exploit-ByteVerify Trojan Horse W32.Netsky.P@mm!enc
Exploit-IEPageSpoof W32.Netsky.P@mm!enc W32.Sober.AA@mm
 
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