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2010-07-08 15:04:15 | |
| A research by SecureWorks shows that it beat the 15 other countries studied for the lowest ratio of cyber attacks per thousand PCs. | |
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In its 'World Cup of security', SecureWorks compared 16 countries with significant numbers of PCs (tens of millions of them) to find out which had the most (or less) attempted cyber attacks originating from computers within their borders. India came out on top with only 52 attempted cyber attacks per thousand PCs. Netherlands, Germany and Brazil followed, all with under 100 attemps per thousand computers.
By comparison, United Kingdom had 107 and Canada 292, and came up respectively at sixth and twelfth position. These rankings are based on the ratio of attempted attacks compared to the total number of PCs in each country, some countries may therefore be the origin of higher amounts of attempts while keeping a relatively good rank. It is the case of China, which has seen almost twice as much attempts as Canada (around 20.6 millions versus some 10.6 millions). But China's higher amount of PCs (102.7 millions) allows it to rank at number 10 for 201 attempted attacks. Unsusprisingly, the United States were found to have a much higher amount of attempted attacks than other countries, with a total of 441 millions. It is also the only country where the number of attempts was greater than the number of active PCs: it had 1,660 attempted attacks per thousand PCs. Its closest followers were South Korea with 795 and Russia with 520. According to Jon Ramsey, CTO for SecureWorks, "the reasons for the difference in number of attempted attacks per country could comprise many things - this ranges from the overall Internet speeds in a country and how proactive the ISPs are in protecting their clients to general user education on security. The ratio of Windows, Mac and Linux users in a country will also make a big difference." He also explained that the study not only shows high cyber criminality activity: "Not only are organisations and individuals putting themselves at risk by not securing them, but they are actually providing cyber criminals with a platform to compromise other computers." In fact, the numbers do not mean that hackers made millions of attacks by themselves, it is an indication that a large number of compromised computers are obviously used to perpetrate attacks through networks of zombie computers, or botnets. For more details, some of the references below include a full table of the results. | |
Reference 1: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=9525
Reference 2: http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/10757/india-beats-netherlands-brazil-and-germany-in-security-world-cup/
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