Asia became the boss of oysters about spam

None of the continents has as much spam traffic as Asia, confirmed Sophos.

Source: Kilianwicks

Asia accounts for 42.8% of the spam that Sophos' global spam monitoring network has recorded, far ahead of North America at No. 2 with 25.6%.

Two years ago, North America was guilty of the number one spam-killing village, accounting for more than half of the world's total spam. Now, according to Sophos, both North America and South America have not caught up with Asia.

Graham Cluley, Sophos' senior technology consultant, said Europe is also becoming an important link in the spam engine, with spam turnover rates . approximately North America (25%). . He seems not to be surprised if Europe surpasses North America next month.

If we split along the national table, the United States is still a spam oligarchy with 23.1%. China and Hong Kong finished second with 21.9%, while Korea ranked third with 9.8%.

According to Sophos, China owns a lot of computers running old versions of Windows and this is the reason why the rate of spam increased, because these computers are always very vulnerable and easy to be exploit spammer.

In contrast, Korea is a particularly attractive target of spammers, due to its modern technology infrastructure. Moreover, if you set up a zombie computer network here, the attacker is no different . win the lottery, because the economic benefit is huge. "Korea has an excellent Internet infrastructure, super fast connectivity, so they are becoming gold mines in the spammer's eyes," Cluley said.

Another ZDNet report found that although security technology has made a lot of progress, the amount of time IT has to devote to protecting the system, fighting spam and viruses has not decreased.

"The top 10 viruses in the last 10 months are all very old viruses. Obviously the race of humans has been unable to win viruses and spam. We are still bombed ," Cluley said.

However, Cluley did not forget to emphasize that Microsoft made a few major changes to XP Service Pack 2. Hackers are more difficult to access Windows systems, because the firewall is very stable and the automatic update mechanism is default. SP2 security patches.

Security firm McAfee likened the security world to spammer just like a game. "The spammers try to show consumers generals and we try to use chess pieces to stop them, and then they have another move."

Both McAfee and Sophos agree that spam is hard to disappear, so ISPs, businesses and users are better off running anti-spam software. The capture of a series of spammer has also recently been appreciated, but it is clear that to make the spammer stand, we need to be more aggressive.

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