Percentage of attacks related to passwords and access control problems
Study: The State of IT Security 2003
Date: July 2003
Primary methods of attack:
Date: July 2003
Primary methods of attack:
 | Abused valid user account/permissions |
| Guessed passwords |
| Exploited poor access control |
| Social engineering |
| Exploited known OS vulnerability (for comparison) |
| Exploited known application vulnerability (for comparison) |
| Unintended misconfiguration/human error (for comparison) |