February 21, 2016 By Pierluigi Paganini
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“In 2010, my IT director was letting me know that the number of attacks we were averaging a day were between 25,000 to 80,000,” said Keith Squires, Utah Commissioner of Public Safety. “We had peaks in the past year or so that were over 300,000,000 a day.”
Hackers use botnets to scan the state’s computer systems, searching for vulnerable systems.
“Although other states were seeing increases, most were not seeing anything like we were,” Squires said. “We didn’t realize it at first, but my opinion is in that same time, Utah was getting a lot of notoriety for the NSA facility that was being built here.”
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Utah systems experiences 300k hacking attacks a day due to the presence of the NSA Data Center
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Well, I suppose that this is understandable although regrettable, and I suspect that if one checks out the surrounding area for other 'high value target' such as the government security sites worldwide obe would find a similar pattern.:(
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