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Study Finds Hackers Hit Every 39 Seconds
UPI 
02/08/07 10:19 AM PT

Researchers at the University of Maryland set up four computers with
weak security to uncover how often hackers would try to break in. The
results: 2,244 attempted hacks per day. The most commonly tried user
names were "admin" and "root," while popular guesses for passwords were
"123," "password" and "test."

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/55647.html