On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:34:42 +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> China | 483 United Kingdom | >> 455 Russian Federation | 167 Germany | >> 74 >> Spain | 68 > > Hey, I'm there (Spain) :-P > > My e-mail and web server stats also put China as the top source for > dictionary/bots attacks. > >> I am curious as to why the United Kingdom should figure so highly. It >> is my own location, which is undoubtedly relevant, but I don't really >> understand the reason. The Internet is global, so why should such a >> high proportion of these unsolicited packets originate from my own >> domicile? > > (...) > > Well, true is that UK has very good connections, infrastructure and > cheap prices -I recently rented a hosting service in there- so for > someone who needs to control a set of malware bots its definitely a > "good" country -I mean, technically speaking- from where to operate (if > you're located in Europe). > > Besides, is the third country per Internet users in Europe: > > http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats4.htm#europe > > I'd say that UK, The Netherlands and Germany are neuralgic nodes for ISP > inter-connections making them a very attractive target for both legal > and not so legal business...
Ah, thanks. You mention "malware bots". Am I to infer then, that it is likely than a fair proportion of these do not emanate directly from the hacker, but from a bot on an innocent bystander's box which has been compromised? Again I am curious, not concerned. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j1h19u$df9$1...@dough.gmane.org