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LeePC World has posted an article today about how long it takes for a hacker to find and compromised an unpatched computer with a Windows operating system. The answer is less than five minutes. This result was based on the research of SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center.
“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. The answer to this is ‘yes’ for most home users and systems that are Internet-facing,” said a researcher on the ISC blog.
A research that was made by a different group called the German Honeypot Project estimates that it takes 16 hours.
Source: PC World
I think 5 minutes is dead on, with the amount of automated tools out there. It’s almost simultaneous.
That’s why carrying around a software firewall is a necessity. Any time I have an install without a decent router/firewall in front of it I do the software firewall almost immediately.
It’s scary. It really makes me wonder if I should update my antivirus more often.