http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200603/200603070011.html Mar. 7, 2006 Korea is increasingly becoming a target of hackers who seek to steal Internet users¡¯ personal information while shedding its dubious status as a leading threat to online security. The ¡°Internet Security Threat Report¡± released by the online security firm Symantec on Monday ranks Korea 10th as a source of security attacks in the second half of 2005, down from ninth in the first half and a shaming second in 2002. The report is produced by analyzing logging records in firewalls and attack detection systems of Symantec¡¯s 20,000 corporate customers in 180 countries. South Korea was the world¡¯s no. 2 after the U.S. as a source of spam in the first half of last year, accounting for 14 percent of spam messages in the world, but the nation improved to third place with the figure declining to 9 percent from July to December. However, Korea moved up to fifth place from sixth in terms of infection with bots, malicious programs which provide hackers with unauthorized control of a computer to steal confidential information or attack specific websites. By using bots, hackers are able to stop individual computers or corporate computer systems from working when they want and to steal financial data and other confidential information to cause large-scale security failures. Symantec claims this means nations around the world need to strengthen computer system security. China has joined countries on the security black list after it moved up to second place following the U.S. as a source of security attacks. The number of attacks from China increased by 153 percent in the second half of 2005, 72 percentage points more than the global average of 81 percent. China¡¯s also rose to second place as a source of spam responsible for 12 percent, up from fourth place in the first half. _________________________________ InfoSec News v2.0 - Coming Soon! http://www.infosecnews.org
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