http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227800051 By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek October 14, 2010 At the RSA Conference 2010 in London on Wednesday, Microsoft said that it had cured 6.5 million botnet-infected computers during the second quarter of 2010, twice the number identified and removed during the same period in 2009. The United States has the dubious honor of being the country with the most botnet infections. Microsoft identified 2.2 million computers compromised by botnet malware in the U.S. during the second quarter of the year, four times more than Brazil, where 550,000 botnet infections were identified. South Korea, fourth in overall infection count, had the highest density of botnet infections, with 14.6 per thousand machines scanned by Microsoft. "Botnets are the launch pad for much of today's criminal activity on the Internet," said Adrienne Hall, general manager of Microsoft' trustworthy computing group, in a blog post. "In many ways, they are the perfect base of operations for computer criminals." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Thu Oct 14 2010 - 22:39:25 PDT
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