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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."
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The majority of cyber-attacks(controlled by their Chinese and Russian overlords) originate within the U.S.
Sounds plausible.
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Of course, hackers always use their home ip, and never bounce off of compromised clients in other countries.
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I'm sure the bulk of it is just that we have more computers. I'd have thought Japan would have been higher though, if that were the primary factor, so maybe not.
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I guess on the internet axis of evil we are number One!
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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All those AOL users who leave their boxes up 24/7 are infected with cooties that use their machines to haxx0r the rest of the world and steel their megabites, oh n0s!
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...can we lump the MediaSentry/SafeNet "investigations" in the numbers for these attacks?
And certainly there are a ton more computers in the U.S. than in China, although that will certainly change within the next decade or so.
Actually, China has ~253 million Internet users. The US has only ~215 million. It could just be that your numbers are dated - They're increasing that number about 8x as fast as we are. Look for yourself: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
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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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Actually, just while I have the numbers pulled up, here are the number of "attacks" from each country mentioned in TFS scaled by the number of Internet users in the country. Since I'm inferring that these are total attacks and not unique IPs, I guess that these numbers are "attacks per Internet user".
0.09581 US
0.03043 China
0.00958 Poland
0.00812 Taiwan
0.00489 Canada
0.00466 South Korea
0.00392 Brazil
0.00210 Germany
0.00151 Japan
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You'll notice pretty much any survey of crime shows:
Violent Crimes per 100,000
Serious Sexual Assaults per 100,000
Murders per 100,000
etc.
They don't just say, "Crimes" because...
Any smart person would choose somewhere with a billion people and 10,000 crimes over a million people with 1,000 crimes. That's why per capita is critical.
Any smart person would also likely choose somewhere with 10,000 littering offences and 1 murder over somewhere with 1000 murders.
It only takes two massive cyber attacks against the entire infrastructure of Georgia and Estonia to make Russia (assuming you don't accept their denials) far more offensive on a global scale than a million spam botnets.
Now which is worse? The country that spams millions of times or the country that cripples the infrastructure of any small nation that dares oppose it? Still care about pure numbers without caring what the numbers actually record?
I'm not claiming the U.S.'s vast numbers of offenses are purely the equivalent of littering, nor that they never do anything worse... Simply that big but meaningless because it's not clarified number A vs. big but meaningless because it's not clarified number B is still... meaningless.