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Chinese regulations target rising cybercrime
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 04:24:32 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/051909-chinese-regulations-target-rising.html By Owen Fletcher IDG News Service 05/19/2009 China has targeted cybercrime in three new sets of regulations issued this month as the activity starts to look like an established industry in the country. Cybercrime in China has grown such that attackers often divide the labor needed to design malware, distribute it and turn the resulting access to remote PCs into monetary gain, security analysts say. Over 1.2 million computers in China in 2008 were infected by software that let an attacker control them as part of a botnet, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). That suggests botnets afflict China more severely than other countries. Just 2 million computers worldwide in the first half of that year were bot-controlled, according to a survey by the MIIT's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team. [...] -- LayerOne 2009, Information Security for the discerning professional. May 23-24 2009 @ The Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, California Visit http://layerone.info for more information
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