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Monthly Incident Summary Reports: June – August 2008

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

Number of Agencies/Universities Reporting

June 2008
Organization Type Incidents No Incidents No Report Total
Universities 43 14 7 64
Agencies 31 46 6 83
July 2008
Organization Type Incidents No Incidents No Report Total
Universities 43 13 9 64
Agencies 38 41 4 83
August 2008
Organization Type Incidents No Incidents No Report Total
Universities 41 18 5 64
Agencies 34 39 10 83

Types of Incidents

Types of Incidents
Types of Incidents  June 2008 July 2008 August 2008
Actual Infections 743 4,085 1,463
Unauthorized Physical Access 1 0 0
Unauthorized Informational Access 8 86 11
Web Site Defacement 3 7 1
Theft Of Equipment 5 22 7
Theft Of Information 0 0 2
Unauthorized Use/Misuse 447 1,071 193
Accidental Disruption 26 41 36
Disruption or Denial of Services (DOS) 5 25 7
Other 348 1,538 102,240
Total 1,586 6,875 103.960

Impact of Incidents

Impact Of Incidents
Month Total Hours Downtime Hours Total Costs Lost Data
June 2008 1,503 305 $53,477 0
July 2008 3,113 859 $515,520 1
August 2008 2,358 694 $78,150 0

Incident Profiles

Incident Profiles
Month Detected with IDS Internal Source External Source
June 2008 32,390,284 20,976 30,656,231
July 2008 25,408,178 52,193 24,036,528
August 2008 36,719,288 25,148 36,702,198

Malicious Code

Malicious Code
Malicious Code June 2008 July 2008 August 2008
Viruses/Worms 5,240,186 244,751 13,950,596
Logic Bombs 0 592 0
Back Doors 7,317 4,652 579
Other Malicious Code 1,337,176 2,396,557 2,373,841

Actual Infections

Actual Infections
Actual Infections  June 2008 July 2008 August 2008
Total Workstations/Hard Drives Infected 738 4,065 1,453
Total Servers Infected 5 20 12

Server Types (Number of Systems)

Server Types (Number of Systems)
Type of Systems Affected June 2008 July 2008 August 2008
Critical production applications and/or data 11 21 40
Critical administrative/support applications and/or data 10 12 3
Research applications and/or data 0 4 2
Academic applications and/or data 7 13 10
External use web servers 8 5,574 5
Internal use web servers 1 1,046 3
FTP Servers 0 1 2
Email Servers 52 53 305
Print Servers 0 2 1
Other Servers 8 3,057 7,318
Total 97 9,783 7,689

Response Activities and General Information

Response Activities and General Information
Question June 2008 July 2008 August 2008
1. Number of times were incident response plans activated 90 86 72
2. Number of times disaster recovery plans activated due to security incident 1 0 4
3. Average hours from detection to containment 566 1,881 957
4. Incidents with response activity logs kept 324 251 315
5. Damage to agency/university IR assets 19 29 26
5a. Number of assets restored 1 30 29
6. Number of incidents needed outside assistance 13 22 20
7. Number of incidents resulted in new security measures 146 195 266
7a. Number of patches installed 167 181 245
7b. Number security software installed 117 136 206
7c. Number of additional policies developed 7 4 2
7d. Number other 25 0 19
8. Number incidents resulted in proliferation 46 65 67
8a. Internal Systems 73 39 23
8b. External Systems 23 31 40
9. Incidents resulted in external public awareness 12 23 3
10. Number Incidents reported to law enforcement 2 7 2

Top Ten Viruses

Top Ten Viruses
June 2008 July 2008 August 2008
Suspicious.2=upack Win32/FakeAlert Agent BRL
WhenU FakeAlert-AQ FakeScanner.F#gif
Happy99.ska Trojan.Wimad 16240 Klez.E_1
KlezE_1 Phishbank HDBreaker
Suspicious=pack Downloader Loveletter.D
Bagle.A3 Mal_Naix-2 Natas-b
Cutwail.gen BAT/TCPParams.A HappyTime
Suspicious=telock.2 Win32/Vundo.AHO Happy99.SKA
Crypt.GEN_703 Bugnraw Banker.AAKD
DCOM.Gen Troj/Agent-HFU Multi
 
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