Computer Compromised Before You Can Get Coffee
Thursday December 9, 2004
Four minutes. That is all the time you have. In some cases you may only have 30 seconds, so relatively speaking 4 minutes is a long time. According to a TechWeb article, AvanteGarde teamed up with Kevin Mitnick, hacker-turned-security-expert and author of Art of Deception and Art of Intrusion, to conduct a test to determine how long it takes for an unprotected system with a live Internet connection to become compromised. The study highlights the importance of personal firewall software as well as why you should patch your machine using a CD or other resource before you connect it to the Internet. Unprotected PCs Fall To Hacker Bots In Just Four Minutes

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