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May 22, 2007

U.S. leads world in malicious Internet activity

Not that it's anything to be proud about, but this recent article by eWeek shows that "The United States has far and away the most malicious code, spam, phishing, attack and botnetwork activity on the planet".

Here are a few shockingly scary article takeaways:

* Over 30% of such attacks come from the USA, followed by China with 10% and Germany with 7%.

* More than half of the servers pumping stolen credit cards and other data into the worlds underground are located in the United States.

* A person's complete identity -- birthdate, bank account, credit card and ID numbers -- can be had for as little as $14.

Posted by Hugh Garber at May 22, 2007 07:29 AM digg this add to del.icio.us add to My Web Furl this page

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