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BBC Experiment Reveals Alarming Number of Attack Attempts
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By Eva Gibson

If you’ve been diligent about keeping up to date on computer security issues, you probably are aware that the number of attempts by hackers to violate home computer systems has been on the rise. However, according to an experiment performed by the BBC News Website team, the number of regular attacks on unprotected computers is far higher than many anticipated.

The experiment showed that the average home computer is at risk of being attacked more than 50 times a night. The BBC team set up a “honeypot,” a computer that is programmed to masquerade as a vulnerable system but that actually tracks and records attacks made on it, and hooked it up to a broadband internet connection for seven hours. According to the BBC website, the honeypot used was “a PC running Windows XP Pro that was made as secure as possible. This ran a software program called VMWare which allows it to host another


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