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?
