Less than 2% of computer attacks on military are successful

Kandra Nygårds kandra at foxette.net
Fri Jan 17 16:40:13 UTC 2003


From: "jnull" <jnull at truerouting.com>

> > But the article also says less than 2% of the "attacks" resulted
> > in a successful intrusion.
>
> 2% would be an embarrassingly large success rate for intrusion on a
> "secured" military network.

Not to mention the definition of "attack" the article seems to use. After
all, a DoS or a probe doesn't actually result in an intrusion, even when
they're successful.


- Kandra






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