The Top Countries For Cybercrime

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Forbes.com.

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Cybercrime, like every digital industry, is outsourcing. Though the U.S.
still produces more malware, spam and viruses than any country in the
world, illicit IT jobs are increasingly scattered across an anarchic and
international Internet, where labor is cheap, legitimate IT jobs are scarce
and scammers are insulated from the laws that protect their victims by
thousands of miles. As Thomas Friedman might say, the criminal underworld
is flat.

Cybercrime this geographically diverse isn't just hard to stop; it's hard
to track. Common tactics like phishing and spam are usually achieved with
"botnets," herds of PCs hijacked with malware unbeknownst to their owners.
Botnet attacks can usually be traced only to the zombie computers, not to
their original source. That means the majority of studies mapping botnet
attacks point to every place in the world that has vulnerable PCs, with no
real sense of where the attacks begin.

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More:
http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2007/07/13/cybercrime-world-regions-t
ech-cx_ag_0716cybercrime.html

- - ferg

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