Zeroing In On the Internet's 'Evil Cities' 90
We've sometimes seen malware sources broken down by country; now a Dutch study attempts to increase the resolution of that information. An anonymous reader writes with some bits gleaned from the recently published study (PDF): "Seoul is the most criminal city on the Internet, followed by Taipei and Beijing. When the population of the top 20 cities is taking into account, Chelyabinsk , in Russia, tops the list, followed by Buenos Aires and Kuala Lampur. These results were found by researchers from the from the University of Twente and Quarantainenet, a security company from the Netherlands. The researchers also found that analyzing attacks' origin at the city level [Original, in Dutch] instead of country level reveals interesting findings. For example, the U.S. ranked #3 in the list of the most criminal countries for the reporting period, while no major U.S. city was found among the most evil ones, while only one European city was listed among the top 20 cities, but 8 EU countries were among the most criminal. It was also observed that the list of criminal cities remains stable over a period time and that when the attack type is taken into account, 50% of the most evil cities remains the same."
Lack of information much? (Score:4, Informative)
Serious lack of useful information in the linked articles. The summary is longer!
Re:Dodgy conclusions... (Score:3, Informative)
But most importantly: South Korea has possibly the worst case of Microsoft monoculture in the world. [kanai.net]
Wrong data for Buenos Aires (Score:4, Informative)
In the per capita list, Buenos Aires ranks 2nd, but the city population data they use are wrong. They say Buenos Aires population is 3 million, but that's only Buenos Aires city proper, the whole metro area has an estimated population of about 13 million. So Buenos Aires should rank lower than listed in that study.
Was this with or without co.cc? (Score:3, Informative)
Seoul, South Korea was #1 on the list, and it may be for reasons other than just generally good Internet connectivity:
It's the home of co.cc, which Google recently blacklisted for being a den of evil.
If it was before the co.cc Google Death Penalty [slashdot.org] then maybe we should re-run the study in a few weeks.
From Google pulls co.cc subdomains from search, brings our global malware nightmare to an end [engadget.com]:
Google classifies [the company behind co.cc] as a "freehost" -- it belongs to a Korean [emphasis added] company...