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Monthly Incident Summary Reports: September - October 2008

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

Number of Agencies/Universities Reporting:

September 2008
Organization Type
Incidents
No Incidents
No Report
Total
Universities
40
17
7
64
Agencies
35
44
4
83

 

October 2008
Organization Type
Incidents
No Incidents
No Report
Total
Universities
44
13
7
64
Agencies
38
38
7
83

Types of Incidents:

Types of Incidents
Types of Incidents
September 2008
October 2008
Actual Infections 857
4,936
Unauthorized Physical Access
0
0
Unauthorized Information Access
227
4
Web Site Defacement
4
4
Theft of Equipment
11
12
Theft of Information
1
0
Unauthorized Use/Misuse
1,129
593
Accidental Disruption
56
42
Disruption or Denial of Services (DOS)
1
2
Other
826,408
2,861,825
Total
828,694
2,867,418

Impact of Incidents:

Impact of Incidents
Month
Total Hours
Downtime Hours
Total Costs
Lost Data
September 2008 2,763 621 $106,658 2
October 2008
5,966
310
$232,166
3

Incident Profiles:

Incident Profiles
Month
Detected with IDS
Internal Source
External Source
September 2008
61,939,112
40,523
57,387,999
October 2008
52,252,864
1,466,026
46,974,924

Malicious Code:

Malicious Code
Malicious Code
September 2008
October 2008
Viruses/Worms
605,745
911,045
Logic Bombs
35
0
Back Doors
589
29,252
Other Malicious Code
485,096
8,176,788
Actual Infections
September 2008
October 2008
Total Workstations/Hard Drives Infected
853
4,929
Total Servers Infected
4
7

Server Types (Number of Systems):

Server Types (Number of Systems)
Type of Systems Affected
September 2008
October 2008
Critical production applications and/or data
16
7,490
Critical administrative/support applications and/or data
8
33
Research applications and/or data
0
8
Academic applications and/or data
2
11
External use web servers
2,260
47
Internal use web servers
6,490
2
FTP Servers 1 1
Email Servers
498
4,003
Print Servers
1
0
Other Servers
148
88
Total
9,424
11,683

Response Activities and General Information:

Response Activities and General information
Question
September 2008
October 2008
1. Number of times were incident response plans activated
68
140
2. Number of times disaster recovery plans activated due to security incident 5 3
3. Average hours from detection to containment 1,248 4,353
4. Incidents with response activity logs kept
547
339
5. Damage to agency/university IR assets
36
29
5a. Number of Assets restored
49
45
6. Number of incidents needed outside assistance
858
16
7. Number of incidents resulted in new security measures
1,110
235
7a. Number of patches installed
1,116
229
7b. Number security software installed
1,077
185
7c. Number of additional policies developed
849
7
7d. Number other
0
2
8. Number incidents resulted in proliferation
68
174
8a. Internal Systems 27 60
8b. External Systems
44
114
9. Incidents resulted in external public awareness
11
11
10. Number Incidents reported to law enforcement
3
5


Top Ten Viruses:

Top 10 Viruses
September 2008 October 2008
Troj/Agent-HNY Troj/Invo-Zip
Troj/Invo-Zip W32.SillyDC
Trojan.Fakealert-532 Infostealer
Mal/EncPk-ES Mal/EncPk-CZ
Generic.dx Generic.dx
Generic Malware.a!zip W32.Spybot.Worm
Infostealer Generic Malware.a!zip (trojan)
Mal/EncPK-CZ Win32/VMalum.EGRZ
Multi Trojan.Virantix.C
Troj/Agent-HTC Generic Malware.a (trojan)
 
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