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Monthly Incident Summary Reports: March - May 2008

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

Number of Agencies/Universities Reporting

March 2008
Organization Type Incidents No Incidents No Report Total
Universities 41 16 8 65
Agencies 31 44 11 86
April 2008
Organization Type Incidents No Incidents No Report Total
Universities 37 19 9 64
Agencies 29 42 15 83
May 2008
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 2008 April 2008 May 2008
Actual Infections 651 789 603
Unauthorized Physical Access 3 1 0
Unauthorized Informational Access 77 78 142
Web Site Defacement 0 1 4
Theft Of Equipment 15 4 6
Theft Of Information 8 1 4
Unauthorized Use/Misuse 517 1,659 218
Accidental Disruption 25 28 40
Disruption or Denial of Services (DOS) 10 3 6
Other 980 1,504 1,992
Total 2,286 4,104 3,015

Impact of Incidents

Impact of Incidents
Month Total Hours Downtime Hours Total Costs Lost Data
March 2008 1,639 167 $56,441 1
April 2008 2,092 354 $61,781 1
May 2008 1,974 388 $118,146 0

Incident Profiles

Incident Profiles
Month Detected with IDS Internal Source External Source
March 2008 19,065,132 26,013 15,918,868
April 2008 71,144,444 42,967,311 234,978
May 2008 21,591,103 51,482 21.543,264

Malicious Code

Malicious Code
Malicious Code March 2008 April 2008 May 2008
Viruses/Worms 134,468 240,656 139,839
Logic Bombs 0 333 401
Back Doors 4,634 2,895 811
Other Malicious Code 425,381 181,480 22,078

Actual Infections

Actual Infections
Actual Infections  March 2008 April 2008 May 2008
Total Workstations/Hard Drives Infected 646 778 590
Total Servers Infected 5 10 13

Server Types (Number of Systems)

Server Types (Number of Systems)
Type of Systems Affected March 2008 April 2008 May 2008
Critical production applications and/or data 3 7 6
Critical administrative/support applications and/or data 6 14 7
Research applications and/or data 1 1 2
Academic applications and/or data 12 4 6
External use web servers 3 9 17
Internal use web servers 2 0 3
FTP Servers 1 1 0
Email Servers 26 8 19
Print Servers 0 0 0
Other Servers 9 40 4
Total 63 84 64

Response Activities and General Information

Response Activities and General Information
Question March 2008 April 2008 May 2008
1. Number of times were incident response plans activated 40 44 29
2. Number of times disaster recovery plans activated due to security incident 0 2 3
3. Average hours from detection to containment 282 321 876
4. Incidents with response activity logs kept 293 355 194
5. Damage to agency/university IR assets 4 10 5
5a. Number of assets restored 4 10 5
6. Number of incidents needed outside assistance 21 11 13
7. Number of incidents resulted in new security measures 196 286 161
7a. Number of patches installed 184 263 139
7b. Number security software installed 200 258 26
7c. Number of additional policies developed 4 4 9
7d. Number other 0 1 1
8. Number incidents resulted in proliferation 68 55 3
8a. Internal Systems 25 34 2
8b. External Systems 43 22 2
9. Incidents resulted in external public awareness 0 3 2
10. Number Incidents reported to law enforcement 7 4 5

Top Ten Viruses

Top Ten Viruses
March 2008 April 2008 May 2008
Downloader Downloader Downloader
Vundo Exploit-MS06-014 Trojan Dropper
Downloader-MisleadApp W32.Mydoom.M@mm W32.Netsky.P@mm!enc
VBS/Psyme VBS/Psyme Downloader-MisleadApp
Vundo.gen.b Vundo Exploit-MS06-014
W32.Advegol!html Downloader-MisleadApp Generic.dx
EGeneric.dx Generic.dx JS/Wonka
Trojan Horse Exploit-ByteVerify Vundo
JS/Wonka Generic Dropper.au W32.Mydoom.M@mm
Trojan.Pandex JS/Wonka W32.Netsky.P@MM

 

 
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