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Twelve minutes to infection?
Tuesday, July 05, 2005 : Stephen D. Carroll, rokus.net

Have you heard of that security study that says an unprotected workstation connected to the internet gets compromised in 12 minutes?

Uh, no.
Sophos published a press release this week that says:

There is now a 50% chance of being infected by an internet worm in just 12 minutes of being online using an unprotected, unpatched Windows PC.

Still, that's pretty nasty. But you saw it here first - the next time some security bubba says "Twelve Minutes" - slap 'em around with the press release.

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