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Monthly Incident Summary Reports: September - November 2007

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

Number of Agencies/Universities Reporting:

September 2007
Organization Type
Incidents
No Incidents
No Report
Total
Universities
39
17
8
64
Agencies
28
45
10
83

October 2007
Organization Type
Incidents
No Incidents
No Report
Total
Universities
41
16
7
64
Agencies
32
39
12
83

November 2007
Organization Type
Incidents
No Incidents
No Report
Total
Universities
39
17
8
64
Agencies
33
44
6
83

Types of Incidents:

Types of Incidents
Types of Incidents
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
Actual Infections
288,234
947 2,921
Unauthorized Physical Access
0
1 4
Unauthorized Information Access
2,193
535 445
Web Site Defacement
3
2 2
Theft of Equipment
11
14 17
Theft of Information
1
2 4
Unauthorized Use/Misuse
5,143
60 945
Accidental Disruption
70
46 96
Disruption or Denial of Services (DOS)
16
7 4
Other
5,481
430 500
Total
301,152
2,044 4,938

Impact of Incidents:

Impact of Incidents
Month
Total Hours
Downtime Hours
Total Costs
Lost Data
September 2007 1,719 232 $49,500 2
October 2007 1,734 239 $58,859 0
November 2007 2,077 940 $75,184 0

Incident Profiles:

Incident Profiles
Month
Detected with IDS
Internal Source
External Source
September 2007
27,925,309
20,688
1,159,444
October 2007
29,795,422
40,822
1,273,647
November 2007
27,419,034
26,702
1,480,572

Malicious Code:

Malicious Code
Malicious Code
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
Viruses/Worms
858,815
405,381
341,823
Logic Bombs
247
0
214
Back Doors
31
49
351
Other Malicious Code
785,578
957,399
1,270,676
Actual Infections
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
Total Workstations/Hard Drives Infected
288,196
921
2,906
Total Servers Infected
38
26 15

Server Types (Number of Systems):

Server Types (Number of Systems)
Type of Systems Affected
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
Critical production applications and/or data
5
7 5
Critical administrative/support applications and/or data
30
3 13
Research applications and/or data
2
1 0
Academic applications and/or data
5
34 10
External use web servers
6
9 6
Internal use web servers
1
3 5
FTP Servers 1,104 568 0
Email Servers
11
944
685
Print Servers
4
1
2
Other Servers
251
1,580
222
Total
1,419
3,150
948

Response Activities and General Information:

Response Activities and General information
Question
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
1. Number of times were incident response plans activated
99
60 53
2. Number of times disaster recovery plans activated due to security incident
1
1 4
3. Average hours from detection to containment
405
492 413
4. Incidents with response activity logs kept
511
342 393
5. Damage to agency/university IR assets
52
11 13
5a. Number of Assets restored
3
11 12
6. Number of incidents needed outside assistance
2
4 18
7. Number of incidents resulted in new security measures
428
315 327
7a. Number of patches installed
411
299 330
7b. Number security software installed
396
24 319
7c. Number of additional policies developed
1
4 9
7d. Number other
0
2 218
8. Number incidents resulted in proliferation
68
34 97
8a. Internal Systems 29 15 31
8b. External Systems
39
22 67
9. Incidents resulted in external public awareness
3
5 20
10. Number Incidents reported to law enforcement
6
7 9


Top Ten Viruses:

Top 10 Viruses
September 2007 October 2007 November 2007
Downloader Downloader Downloader
BraveSentry JS/Downloader-BCZ BraveSentry
JS/Downloader-BCZ BraveSentry VBS/Psyme
Downloader.Mislead/App Bloodhound.Exploit.163 Downloader.Mislead/App
Trojan.Vundo Downloader.Mislead/App Trojan.Dropper
Trojan Horse Trojan.Pidief.A Trojan.Pandex
Trojan.Pandex W32.Advegol!html Trojan.Vundo
VBS/Psyme Exploit-PDF.Shell JS/Downloader-BCZ
Others JS/Wonka Troj.Pushdo-Gen
Trojan.Dropper Puper W32.Netsky.P@mm!enc
 
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