UK Officially The Most Hacked Country

_Hellfire_ writes "Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report for the second half of 2004 says that the UK is leading the rest of the world with bot networks. The report states that "...25.2% [of bots] are located in the UK. That now puts the country ahead of the US (24.6%), China (7.8%), Canada (4.9%) and Spain (3.8%)". Symantec blames a sudden uptake of residential broadband connections without the awareness of the required security measures."

Comments

Hacky

[Doc Ruby]

"Most hacked" is not the English translation of "largest percentage hacked". "Most hacked" would refer to the largest quantity hacked. The proper English translation of that statistic is "most hacky" - even if I did just make up "hacky".

Re:It's called a hardware NAT router

[CdBee]

When you go out and buy a new XP PC, or have to reinstall it using the restore CD.. and if you;re a clueless noob like most surfers, that's when you find that NAT is the answer.

A lot of zombifying malwares DO spread by direct infection of unpatched machines. Those 30 mins it takes to download patches are the time in which NAT is a lifesaver. Of course it should always be accompanied by software firewalling to control outgoing connections.

Re:Statistics.....

[Monkelectric]

The corporate product is very stable and signature updates are de facto free

Except that the signatures are lightyears behind ... Panda: Updates once a day, Trend: updates every 3 hours. Symantec: Every TWO WEEKS.

Two weeks is simply unacceptable. Contrary to their literature, Symantec does *NOT* take security seriously.

Re:Statistics.....

[Monkelectric]

The symantec client updates every 1-2 weeks by default. However, you can change this setting to daily. I know this is true in the corporate version

Ok, but is symantec updating their defs every 1-2 days? Trend updates 2 or 3 times a day on slow days. I was under the impression that symantec updates their defs like once a week.