Vulnerability Development: RE: hello

From: Oliver Petruzel <opetruzel_at_cox.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 03:37:37 -0400

I think what he seeks are power-point presentation bullet-points... such
as "x number of companies reported bind hacks in 2001" etc...

SANS is a good start for info, and projects at secfocus are good
too...stats abound...

-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:59 PM
To: xzchen
Cc: vuln-dev_at_securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: hello

On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 10:16:19 +0800, xzchen <xzchen_at_sei.xjtu.edu.cn>
said:

> Hi,I am engaged in the vulnerability assessment. Now I am lack of
> the statistic results about the exploting incidents of some
> vulnerabilities.How can I get some statistic data about the
> exploting incidents of some vulnerabilities? Please provide me some
> reference. Thank you.

Vulnerability assessments are usually made on a specific
program/site/network. As a result, simply throwing statistics like
"18 million hosts were infected with Nimda" doesn't tell you
*ANYTHING* about whether your target is vulnerable to anything, Nimda
or otherwise. On the other hand, *IF* your network contains Linux
systems, Dave Dittrich's estimate of how long an unpatched Linux
system survives may be useful information.

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				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech

Received on Apr 07 2002