Security and frogs
Surfing I found a good article: Security Absurdity: The Complete, Unquestionable, And Total Failure of Information Security
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In a recent experiment, AvanteGarde deployed half a dozen systems in honeypot style, using default security settings. It then analyzed the machines’ performance by tallying the attacks, counting the number of compromises, and timing how long it took an attack to successfully hijack a computer once it was connected to the Internet. The average time until a successful compromise was just four minutes!
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The first thing most consumers do with a new computer is surf the Internet, play games, send emails – not install patches. However, even if a person was security-aware and even if the person followed SANS Incident Response Center’s recommendations for Surviving the First Day of Windows XP, they will still be left vulnerable as the process of downloading and installing the latest Microsoft patches which may be as small as 70 megabytes (MB) or as large as 260 MB, takes longer than the time it takes for an unpatched computer to be
compromised. "In some instances, someone had taken complete control of the machine in as little as 30 seconds," said Marcus Colombano, a partner with AvanteGarde.
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