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UK Officially The Most Hacked Country

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the take-pride-in-your-position dept.

_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."

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  1. Hacky by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 4, Informative

    "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".

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  2. Re:Statistics..... by Monkelectric · · Score: 4, Informative
    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.

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