On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:13:02 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:34:42 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
(...) >>> 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. Exactly. Nowadays most of the malware/intrusion traffic is generated automatically from (not-so)innocent computers -zombies- which are managed in the background by the real bad-guys. There are, of course, directed attacks aimed to break specific targets but they're less common. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.08.05.15.21...@gmail.com
