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Skriven 2006-10-17 21:24:00 av George Vandervort (1:382/8)
  Kommentar till text 22691 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: 15 Second WinXP Hacker
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Hello Alan!

Tuesday October 17 2006 21:15, Alan Zisman wrote to George Vandervort:

 AZ> In article <24614$WIN95@JamNNTPd>,
 AZ>  "George Vandervort -> Alan Zisman" <1:382/8> wrote:
 AZ>
 AZ>
 AZ>>> Until then, I remain skeptical-- despite the often-repeated
 AZ>>> claims, I haven't heard any non-anecdotal reports of a
 AZ>>> controlled experiment with actual clear details of outcomes.
 AZ>
 AZ>
 GV>> === Cut ===
 AZ>
 GV>> Tracking down hi-tech crime
 GV>> By Mark Ward, Sunday, 8 October 2006,
 GV>> Technology Correspondent, BBC News website
 AZ>
 GV>> How the trap was sprung
 AZ>
 GV>> If every hour a burglar turned up at your house and rattled the
 GV>> locks on the doors and windows to see if he could get in, you
 GV>> might consider moving to a safer neighbourhood.
 AZ>
 GV>> And while that may not be happening to your home, it probably is
 GV>> happening to any PC you connect to the net.
 AZ>
 GV>> An investigation by the BBC News website has established the
 GV>> scale of the dangers facing the average net user....
 AZ>
 AZ> Good one... thanks.

And Now Here is the rest of the Story...


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Press Releases
Home PCs under attack from hackers more than 50 times a night, suggests BBC
News Website experiment

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/10_october/09/pc.sh
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Category: News
Date: 09.10.2006

Home PCs could be under attack from hackers more than 50 times a night,
suggests a BBC News Website experiment.

The BBC News Website team set up a 'honeypot' PC – a computer that looks like a
normal PC online but records everything that's done to it – in order to find
out the dangers facing web users.

Every single time the honeypot was put online it was attacked.

In one of the busiest nights of malicious online activity, the computer was
attacked 53 times:

 one hijack attempt. PC suffered buffer overflow attempt to subvert web server
built into Microsoft Windows. A successful attack would hand over control of
the machine to a hacker;

 two "port scans" which look for weak spots in Windows software -
reconnaissance by hackers seeking new victims;

 11 attacks by the 'Blaster' worm - success would have rendered the machine
unusable;

 three attacks by the 'Slammer' worm - success would have left machine crippled
and prone to crashing;

 36 fake security announcements/adverts for fake security software posing as
warnings. Reacting to these could leave a PC clogged with spyware.

Over the course of the whole experiment, on average, at least one attack an
hour came from a dangerous computer bug with the ability to cripple an
unprotected PC.

And at least one attack per night was even more serious - an attempt to hijack
the computer entirely – which could lead to the computer being turned into a
'zombie PC' and used to carry out criminal activity without the owner's
knowledge.

The experiment demonstrates the vulnerability of unprotected home PCs to
malicious hackers.

According to Symantec, 86% of all targeted attacks on computers are aimed at
home users.

There are an estimated 200,000 malicious programs in existence.

Starting today (Monday 9 October 2006), the BBC News Website is running a whole
week of special features looking at the issue of hi-tech crime and giving
people advice on they can stay safe online.

As part of the BBC News Website's Cracking Hi-Tech Crime specials the BBC also
talks to the hi-tech criminals behind the viruses, 'phishing' emails and
malicious programs putting home PCs at risk.

One hacker the BBC spoke to claims to have earned $10,000 a day from computer
crime.

Another says that they can hack into many online shops within three to four
hours and sell the data on for anything between $100 and $500.

Unconcerned about the risk of arrest the hacker adds: "How can a cop catch me?
Catch me if they can!"

Notes to Editors

In the BBC's honeypot PC experiment none of the attacks was solicited. The
computer was simply put online and the attacks recorded over a month-long
period.

The BBC's honeypot PC recorded around 30 attacks in each seven-hour overnight
test period (midnight–7.00am), with attacks occurring around every 12 to 15
minutes.

Most were 'nuisance' attacks – fake security warnings or attempts to trick
people into thinking their machine had been hijacked.

According to the Get Safe Online campaign, which launches in the same week as
the BBC News Website's special week of hi-tech crime features, 52% of Britons
use online banking.

In 2005 UK losses to 'phishing' hit £23m – almost double that lost in 2004.

PC penetration in the UK has hit 57% of households, of which 69% are broadband
users.

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George Vandervort
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