Misconfigursed remote access is to blame For Hacked

Misconfigured remote access software is to blame for most of the violations of data by hackers, according to reports from Verizon and Trust wave security. While theft of source code for Symantec's pcAnywhere laid the program remote access into the spotlight, security challenges posed by remote management products are not new. In fact, data released over the past year show that stupid remote access configured for routine programmers account for a significant portion of data breaches and security incidents.

Remote access software, for example, led to a staggering 62 percent of studied by security firm Trust wave in his report recently released global security. The company looked at 300 violations; he researched and analyzed the results of the 2000 penetration tests. The data corresponds with the Verizon to the annual survey of violations of data security practices and on their own investigations for the United States secret service. The company found that hacking accounts for half of all violations, and 64 percent of those hacks are flaws in the software remote access.

If pcAnywhere has received a lot of attention recently, virtual network computing has two upper culprits (VNC) system is an open source way to remotely manage desktops and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) developed by Microsoft. Network mapping NMap Insecure.com, utility that manages the port scans on a regular basis through the catalogs are an estimated 83 million open VNC ports and around 230 million systems in RDP ports open. Open ports do not indicate the vulnerability, but shows the systems that would attract more attention of the attacker.

In comparison, a recent analysis of Internet led by the direction of vulnerability that firm rapid7 found that an estimated allowed $ 7.7 million systems requests on ports typically used by pcAnywhere Symantec, but more research revealed that only 140 000 systems – about 1.8 per 100 – appear to be responding to the requests for pcAnywhere and therefore could be attacked. If a similar proportion of the VNC and RDP systems is vulnerable, there is more than 5 million challengeable systems.

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