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+-   Unpatched Windows PCs fall to hackers in < 5min on Monday July 14 2008, @07:52PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 14 2008, @07:52PM
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An anonymous reader writes "It takes less than five minutes for hackers to find and compromise an unpatched Windows PC after it's connected to the Internet, a security researcher said today. The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center (ISC) currently estimates the "survival" time of an Internet-connected computer running Windows at around four minutes if it's not equipped with the latest Microsoft security patches, said Lorna Hutcheson, a researcher and analyst, in a post to the ISC blog. "I have been asked many [times] by people if I really believed the survival time graph on the ISC site was truly an accurate representation of how long a new system had once connected," said Hutcheson. "The answer to this is 'yes' for most home users and systems that are Internet facing. ISC maintains a record of the time between network probes for an average IP address, and assumes that hackers would follow a successful probe — which would disclose one or more open ports — with an exploit, most likely a worm."
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