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Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis
From: Max Vision <vision () WHITEHATS COM>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:56:54 -0700
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, H Carvey wrote:
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/defacements- graphs.html#HIST What does the Y-axis represent? Fraction of what? And the X-axis is labeled "Defacements per day, simple"...what constitutes a "simple" defacement?
It is clearly a bell-curve graph, so that when added, all "groups" of data will total 1. "Simple" is most likely a label for the type of graph, not an adjective describing the defacements.
This one: http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/graphs/bar_osto tals.gif is entitled "OS totals by month"...but what do the various colors on the bars indicate?
It is clearly labeled: Yellow: NT, White: Linux, Orange: BSD, Green: Solaris, Purple: All Other
I guess the point is this...if you have nothing better to do and want to waste someone's time...sure, show these graphs to your boss. They are meaningless, though colorful and probably quite enjoyable to look at when printed on a color printer.
I think you should slow down and try a little harder to see the meaning in these folks data before discounting them as meaningless. Also, I think it's pretty obvious that defacement archives encourage further activity, but at the same time I think the archives provide a valuable asset to the community. Max
Current thread:
- [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis Christopher M. Bergeron (Sep 05)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis Meredith Shaebanyan (Sep 05)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis Erik Tayler (Sep 05)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis security curmudgeon (Sep 06)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis Erik Tayler (Sep 06)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis security curmudgeon (Sep 06)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis Jensenne Roculan (Sep 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis Yonatan Bokovza (Sep 06)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis H Carvey (Sep 06)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis Max Vision (Sep 06)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis Ryan Permeh (Sep 06)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis Matt Dickerson (Sep 07)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis Neff, Paul (Sep 06)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Attack Trend Analysis H Carvey (Sep 08)