[121894] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Countries with the most botnets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Jan 30 16:59:27 2010
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:58:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <77ACDBE9-AFF1-4D40-B6B1-247590B4E836@cs.columbia.edu>
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On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> A colleague needs to know, along with citable sources if possible.
>
> Ideally - number of zombified PCs, percentage of zombified PCs, name of
> nation, source.
>
> Threat reports from symantec and macafee suggest the US leads, with
> China a very close second.
>
> Yes, we realize that answers will be imperfect.
Data is of course needed as a starting point. But does anyone have
anything to explain differences between countries, industries, some other
distinction, if any? Although we use terms from biology, i.e. infection,
virus, etc; bots aren't naturally occuring phenomena.
Or even in small communities, do universities have differences between
themselves? Resnets vs faculty? Engineering vs arts & sciences?
