Author: JT Smith
From PR Newswire: Despite more than 5.25 million
attack attempts, eWeek’s OpenHack III survived a major test of Web security in
its public challenge to penetrate and corrupt an Internet service provider
(ISP) and a fictitious e-commerce site established by Argus Systems Group.
The test was part of the newsweekly’s attempt to minimize real-world Web
disasters.
An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 individual hackers failed to penetrate
three market-leading platforms — Sun Solaris 7, IBM AIX 4.3.3 and Red Hat
Linux — each of which was secured by Argus’s proprietary PitBull
intrusion-prevention system.
attack attempts, eWeek’s OpenHack III survived a major test of Web security in
its public challenge to penetrate and corrupt an Internet service provider
(ISP) and a fictitious e-commerce site established by Argus Systems Group.
The test was part of the newsweekly’s attempt to minimize real-world Web
disasters.
An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 individual hackers failed to penetrate
three market-leading platforms — Sun Solaris 7, IBM AIX 4.3.3 and Red Hat
Linux — each of which was secured by Argus’s proprietary PitBull
intrusion-prevention system.
