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Monthly Incident Summary Reports: December 2007 - February 2008

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

Number of Agencies/Universities Reporting:

December 2007
Organization Type Incidents No Incidents No Report Total
Universities  37 19 9 65
Agencies 32 42 12 86

January 2008
Organization Type Incidents No Incidents No Report Total
Universities  39 19 7 65
Agencies 25 44 17 86

February 2008
Organization Type Incidents No Incidents No Report Total
Universities  38 16 11 65
Agencies 29 46 11 86

Types of Incidents:

Incidents
Types of Incidents December 2007 January 2008 February 2008
Actual Infections 10646 912 1309
Unauthorized Physical Access 2 0 3
Unauthorized Information Access 282 372 412
Web Site Defacement 1 1 2
Theft of Equipment 10 10 26
Theft of Information 2 0 1
Unauthorized Use/Misuse 403 422 422
Accidental Disruption 48 17 35
Disruption or Denial of Services (DOS) 5 26 23
Other 14015 74 1350
Total 25414 6241 3583

Impact of Incidents:

Impact
Month Total Hours Downtime Hours Total Cost Lost Data
December 2007 1686 555 $69,669 2
January 2008 3253 197 $54,891 0
February 2008 1845 99 $55,852 2

Incident Profiles:

Profiles
Month Detected with IDS Internal Source External Source
December 2007 28,195,699 4,282,371 1,448,414
January 2008 151,507,438 17,636 135,526,999
February 2008 2,719,741 31,145 15,819,868

Malicious Code:

Malicious Code
Malicious Code December 2007 January 2008 February 2008
Viruses/Worms 322,177 263,560 211,855
Logic Bombs 398 302 206
Back Doors 143 645 1,643
Other 1,164,336 158,815 1,770,411

Actual Infections:

Actual Infections
Actual Infections December 2007 January 2008 February 2008
Total Workstations/Hard Drives Infected 10,610 903 1,297
Total Servers Infected 36 9 12

Server Types (Number of Systems):

Server Types (Number of Systems)
Type of Systems Affected December 2007 January 2008 February 2008
Critical production applications and/or data 7 4 1
Critical administrative/support applications and/or data 123 6 15
Research applications and/or data 1 0 0
Academic applications and/or data 7 4 2
External use web servers 5 6 7
Internal use web servers 6 4 3
FTP Servers 3 0 476
Email Servers 21 645 43
Print Servers 0 0 0
Other Servers 8 7 17
Total 182 676 564

Response Activities and General Information:

Response Activities and General Information
Question December 2007 January 2008 February 2008
1. Number of times were incident response plans activated 52 63 70
2. Number of times disaster recovery plans activated due to security incident 0 0 1
3. Average hours from detection to containment 211 392 362
4. Incidents with response activity logs kept 185 312 271
5. Damage to agency/university IR assets 12 24 7
5a. Number of Assets restored 11 23 7
6. Number of incidents needed outside assistance 17 15 14
7. Number of incidents resulted in new security measures 170 222 212
7a. Number of patches installed 132 48 209
7b. Number security software installed 160 187 209
7c. Number of additional policies developed 1 4 16
7d. Number other 2 2 0
8. Number incidents resulted in proliferation 59 51 0
8a. Internal Systems 20 11 0
8b. External Systems 39 40 1
9. Incidents resulted in external public awareness 5 5 6
10. Number Incidents reported to law enforcement 6 6 19

Top Ten Viruses:

Top Ten Viruses
December 2007 January 2008 February 2008
SQL_SSRP_Slammer_Worm Trojan Horse Downloader
Win32/Vundo.IV SQL_SSRP_Slammer_Worm W32Advedol!html
Trojan Horse Win32/VMalum.QHC Trojan Horse
Generic!atr Cookie-207 Generic.dx
W32.FunLove.4099 Phishbank Vundo
Win32/VMalum.QHC Win32/Vundo.IV Vundo.gen.b
Trojan.Pandex Cookie-Atdmt W32.Mydoom.M@mm
Trojan.Vundo Troj/Pusho-Gen Trojan.Metajuan
W32.SillyFDC W32.Rontokbro@mm Trojan.Pandex
Downloader Cookie-Doubleclick W32.Netsky.P@mm!enc
 
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