Internet Security and Programming

Israel has the dubious honor of being home to the most malicious Internet activity per Internet user, according to Symantec’s twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report. The latest report, covering the second half of 2006, was just released today. This was the first time Symantec measured how much activity like spam origination, phishing site hosting and bot-infected computers could be attributed to an average Internet user. From July through December, 9 percent of all such activity traced back to Israel. Taiwan came next with 8 percent, while Poland and the US tied with 6.

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