Salt Lake City — (KUTV) Computer systems for the state of Utah are being bombarded with attacks at a rapid fire rate — sometimes hundreds of millions a day — a dramatic increase from just a few years ago.
“In 2010, my IT director was letting me know that the number of attacks we were averaging a day were between 25,000 to 80,000,” said Keith Squires, Utah Commissioner of Public Safety. “We had peaks in the past year or so that were over 300,000,000 a day.”
Most of the time, the hackers are not sitting in front of a keyboard and screen, but programs set in motion by them are sweeping state systems, searching for signs of weakness. Think of it as a constant stream of searchlights, crisscrossing your neighborhood, looking for an open garage door. For the full article click here
from hacker samurai http://ift.tt/1OjUA8y
via IFTTT
No comments:
Post a Comment