- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me: The Extent and Scope of the Cybercrime Problem
- CERT/CC Statistics
- Dan Farmer's Internet Security Survey
- WarRoom Research's Information Security Survey
- Conclusions
Dan Farmer's Internet Security Survey
Dan Farmer is a leading, although controversial, Internet security expert. Farmer authored the SATAN tool for scanning and exposing network and Internet vulnerabilities. Farmer's "Internet Security Survey" is compiled from an audacious and unsolicited scan of Internet Web sites he conducted in 1996.
According to Farmer, the "red" designation refers to sites that are "wide open to any potential attacker," and the "yellow" designation refers to sites that have "problems that are less serious although still of great concern."
Table 3.1 Internet Security Survey Summary
|
Type of Site |
Total # of Hosts Scanned |
Total % Vulnerable |
% Yellow |
% Red |
|
Banks |
660 |
68.33 |
32.73 |
35.61 |
|
Credit unions |
274 |
51.09 |
30.66 |
20.44 |
|
U.S. Federal sites |
47 |
61.70 |
23.40 |
38.30 |
|
Newspapers |
312 |
69.55 |
30.77 |
38.78 |
|
Sex |
451 |
66.08 |
40.58 |
25.50 |
|
Totals |
1,734 |
64.94 |
33.85 |
31.08 |
|
Random group |
469 |
33.05 |
15.78 |
17.27 |
Source: Dan Farmer, http://www.fish.com The total number of hosts in the individual categories does not add up to the "Total" number of hosts because of multi-homed hosts.