HACKING OFF THE HACKERS

摘要

But security teams must continue to improve because hacker incidents are on the rise, with no slowdown in sight. According to the CERT coordination center, an Internet security reporting organization operated by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, more than 73,000 hacking incidents were reported nationwide through the first nine months of 2002, up from about 53,000 incidents for all of 2001 (see figure). Comparatively, CERT reported about 10,000 incidents in 1999 and about 22,000 incidents in 2000. Alan Fitzpatrick, senior vice president of engineering for competitive carrier US LEC, said the hacking problem is "big and will only get bigger." The fear is that as the number of applications and servers grows―and as new technologies develop―hackers will always stay at least one step ahead of service providers.