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| Europe home to majority of zombies |
| 2005-06-02 |
| PCs, that is .... Europe was home to more hacker-controlled (zombie) computers in May than anywhere else in the world, according to vendor research. Zombie computers are typically infected with viruses and used to send spam and perform denial of service attacks. Using a tool that can track zombie machines, CipherTrust found that 26 per cent of them were hosted in European countries, with most of them in Germany (six per cent), France (five per cent) and the UK (three per cent). The company's ZombieMeter found that hackers were hijacking around 172,009 computers every day. Approximately 20 per cent of those machines were based in the United States, and 15 per cent were found in China. CipherTrust did not provide details of where the attackers resided. Until this month, the company said the largest percentage of zombies alternated between China and the United States. International trade associations are currently urging internet service providers (ISPs) to stamp out zombie networks of computers used for sending spam. Members of the London Action Plan (LAP), which include the UK Office of Fair Trading, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and government agencies in 18 other countries, have launched Operation Spam Zombies - a campaign to make ISPs quarantine customer computers used to send spam. |
| Posted by:too true |
| #6 S'posed to be a joke. I use FreeBSD myself as a server OS. |
| Posted by: badanov 2005-06-02 21:54 |
| #5 I don't know why Badanov keeps linking to BSD with a "Dawn of the Dead" label. The Apple laptop I'm using runs on a BSD variant. (And for the life of me, I find the BSD "ports" system to be the most irritating upgrade system I've dealt with in a while. Gimme debian apt any day. Or I'll go back in my cave and switch to slackware. Og like slack!) |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-06-02 21:41 |
| #4 LOL, you're cheating badanov |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2005-06-02 17:11 |
| #3 Insert Obligattory Dawn of the Dead joke here. |
| Posted by: badanov 2005-06-02 17:09 |
| #2 Indeed... It's like saying that China has more people than Europe. Btw, this is how you keep out the riffraff: Firefox or Opera Pegasus Mail Zone Alarm Adaware Spybot All free... |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2005-06-02 17:03 |
| #1 Twenty-six percent is a majority? And Gore won Florida. I wonder how this compares to the number of machines everyone owns? Does the US have 20% of the PCs on the 'net? Does Europe have 26%? |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-06-02 16:55 |