MyCERT Quarterly Summary (Q2) 2004
23rd July 2004 (Bernama)

KUALA LUMPUR, July 23, 2004 -- The MyCERT Quarterly Summary is issued quarterly to wrap up incidents reported to us for the quarter with some brief description and analysis of major incidents observed for the quarter. Highlights on the statistics of attacks/incidents reported to us, as well as other noteworthy incidents and new vulnerability information are inclusive.

Additionally this summary also directs to resources in dealing with problems related to security incidents, including patches, service packs, upgrades and hardenings.

Recent Activities The second quarter of 2004 was less hectic compared to previous quarter, though we had series network based worms. Besides, the worms incidents and their activities, we observed some significant incidents which worth to be pointed out here.

The total number of incidents received for this quarter has increased to a total of 4,095 incidents, which represents 56.5% increases compared to the previous quarter. Spam incidents had contributed the most incidents compared to other incidents.