[eno_]

If you count every time you are port-scanned, you are cyber-attacked several times per day. That 250,000 times number is brown and smelly, as its provenance would suggest.

Mounting a serious 'sploit against a network that is even moderately well-protected with a firewall and a sysop that knows how to spot unusual stuff in the logs is not for amateurs. High quality attacks (i.e. more than a ping-flood) are very rare.

[Gunrunner2]

>>If you count every time you are port-scanned, you are cyber-attacked several times per day. That 250,000 times number is brown and smelly, as its provenance would suggest.<<

I assure you, the 250,000 does not include the average "port scan." it is a little more than that.

>>Mounting a serious 'sploit against a network that is even moderately well-protected with a firewall and a sysop that knows how to spot unusual stuff in the logs is not for amateurs.<<

Correct.

>>High quality attacks (i.e. more than a ping-flood) are very rare.<<

Absolutely, and you would be surprised (maybe not) from whence most attacks come from.