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Countries with the most botnets
- Subject: Countries with the most botnets
- From: sean at donelan.com (Sean Donelan)
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:58:50 -0500 (EST)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> A colleague needs to know, along with citable sources if possible.
>
> Ideally - number of zombified PCs, percentage of zombified PCs, name of
> nation, source.
>
> Threat reports from symantec and macafee suggest the US leads, with
> China a very close second.
>
> Yes, we realize that answers will be imperfect.
Data is of course needed as a starting point. But does anyone have
anything to explain differences between countries, industries, some other
distinction, if any? Although we use terms from biology, i.e. infection,
virus, etc; bots aren't naturally occuring phenomena.
Or even in small communities, do universities have differences between
themselves? Resnets vs faculty? Engineering vs arts & sciences?