Derived from a sample set of more than 400 companies in more than 30 countries, the threat report is based on a repository of cyber-attack data. Key findings from the report include:
-- Internet attacks have increased at a 64 percent annualized rate in the six-month period.
-- U.S. designated terrorist states with the most cyber-attack activity included Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Kuwait and Indonesia.
-- A small percent of systems launching Code Red virus attacks were UNIX systems, suggesting that some attackers are using Code Red to disguise their attacks.
-- 70 percent of power and energy companies suffered a severe attack, as opposed to 57 percent in the prior six-month period.
-- Public companies were twice as likely to experience at least one severe attack and twice as likely to suffer a highly aggressive attack than private, nonprofit, and government entities combined.
-- 80 percent of all attacks originated from 10 countries, up from 70 percent during the prior six-month period. The countries were the United States, Germany, South Korea, China, France, Canada, Italy, Taiwan, Great Britain and Japan.
-- 99.9 percent of attack scans are focused on only 20 services, suggesting that the vast majority of attacker reconnaissance is focused on a relatively few amount of entry points.
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