I'm just not seeing the data to support this assertion. In fact, my work in the region points to Asian on Asian cybercrime (Phishing, DOS/extortion, SPAM, etc.) - especially within language/Internet boundaries as the big problem. I think the real problem is the "security media" does not speak/read Chinese, Korean, Malay/Bahasia, Japanese - so they are not seeing what is really happening.
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Juha-Matti Laurio Sent: Fri 12/29/2006 1:09 PM To: Fergie; [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] Earthquake in Asia, Spam Plummets Netcraft's related entry and diagram here: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/12/27/taiwan_earthquake_limits_access_to_chinese_hosts.html - Juha-Matti Fergie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Levine: > > [snip] > > An earthquake on Tuesday near Taiwan caused widespread disruption to > telephone and Internet networks. The quake affected an area of the sea > bottom with a lot of undersea cables that broke, and since there is only a > limited number of cable repair ships, it will take at least weeks to fish > them up and splice them. > > China and Korea were heavily affected, with most of their connectivity to > the rest of the world cut off. Not surprisingly, this meant that the rest > of the world got a lot less spam, too. Neither country is the haven for > overt spammers that it used to be, but both have large broadband networks > with vast numbers of virus controlled zombie computers. > > One large network in North America saw their mail from Korea drop by 90% > and from China by 99%. Since the mail sent from those countries to the US > is typically 99% spam and 1% legitimate mail, the earthquake's effect on > e-mail was, to a first approximation, to get rid of a lot of spam. Brett > Glass, a journalist who runs a small rural ISP in Wyoming, noted that if > the affected countries dealt more effectively with their spam, they might > not well have needed all of the capacity they'd lost. > > [snip] > > More: > http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/earthquake.html > > - - ferg _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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