Overheard in the tech blogosphere » Mark Ward http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard A Whatis.com blog Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:36:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Overheard: If it was every twelve minutes in 2006, what’s the lucky number now? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-if-it-was-every-twelve-minutes-in-2006-whats-the-lucky-number-now/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-if-it-was-every-twelve-minutes-in-2006-whats-the-lucky-number-now/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:22:02 +0000 Margaret Rouse http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-if-it-was-every-twelve-minutes-in-2006-whats-the-lucky-number-now/ mark_ward1.jpg If every hour a burglar turned up at your house and rattled the locks on the doors and windows to see if he could get in, you might consider moving to a safer neighbourhood. And while that may not be happening to your home, it probably is happening to any PC you connect to the net.

Mark Ward, Tracking down hi-tech crime

In 2006, a BBC News technology team set up a honeypot and found that the average home computer was attacked from the Internet once every twelve minutes. I wonder what the number is now?

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