The Honeynet Project was started for the purpose of recording the actions of attackers. The results were quite surprising. According to the findings of the Honeynet Project, a random computer on the Internet is scanned dozens of times a day. The time before someone successfully hacks a default install of RedHat 6.2 server is less than seventy-two hours. A home computer with Windows 98 and file sharing enabled was hacked five times in four days. The fastest time for a server to be hacked is fifteen minutes after it was plugged into the network. The findings of the project have made the security community stand up and take notice. Attackers will not go away on their own: We need to research their tactics, motives, and tools to protect us and our organizations.
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