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US Responsible For the Majority of Cyber Attacks
Amber G5 writes "SecureWorks published the locations of the computers from which the greatest number of cyber attacks were attempted against its clients in 2008. The United States topped the list with 20.6 million attempted attacks originating from computers within the country, and China ran second with 7.7 million attempted attacks emanating from computers within its borders. This was followed by Brazil with over 166,987 attempted attacks, South Korea with 162,289, Poland with 153,205, Japan with 142,346, Russia with 130,572, Taiwan with 124,997, Germany with 110,493, and Canada with 107,483."
And out of how many computers connected to the Internet? I'm willing to bet China's "per machina" rate is higher.
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A list of their "Clients" might be useful as well as interesting while taking their numbers and the source of the "cyber attacks" into consideration...
It might be that as the US is the greatest English-speaking population with disposable income, the US may be a better target and thus is targeted from within the itself more often??
Many of the attacks originating from China are actually from the US as well. Many US hackers find it easy to compromise chinese machines and use those machines for whatever they need. I'm willing to bet a hand full of Chinese attacks are actually originating from the US as hackers seek to use easily compromised machines that are unlikly to work with the US (politically) if the US asks for connection info from an ISP. As a result, a lot of US originated hack trails stop in china.
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Good job on reading the article. You know, the part where every other paragraph other than what was cut for the summary points this out and how to defend against this very thing.
You know, they never draw that conclusion in the article. They just say that some attacks originating from a given country may be initially controlled from a different country. They don't go into ip masking/spoofing or any of that... Why would they want to expose the limits to their services when this article was written in an attempt to sell something?
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According to Akamai's quarterly "State of the Internet" report, Japan and the U.S. account for "over 50% of observed [attack] traffic in total."
You can see the executive summary and download the report here.
Full Disclosure: I work for Akamai.
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I'll fill you in:
The majority of cyber-attacks are launched by botnets controlled by Russian or Chinese based groups.
One major reason there are more attacks "coming" from the US is we have
A. A large % of the 'net population
B. A huge % of idiot users with pwned Windows machines acting as zombies, which are then used by the Chinese/Russians to launch attacks.
So now you know, & knowledge is POWAH!
So in other words your entire post is meaningless?