{"id":1111,"date":"2007-01-23T12:09:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T17:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/index.php\/2007\/01\/23\/us-remains-dirtiest-spammer-but-china-makes-more-malware\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:51","slug":"us-remains-dirtiest-spammer-but-china-makes-more-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2007\/01\/23\/us-remains-dirtiest-spammer-but-china-makes-more-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Remains Dirtiest Spammer, But China Makes More Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?1130\">InformationWeek<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States again led the world as a spam producing, malware hosting country last year, a security vendor said Monday, but China took top dishonor as the nation that generated the most malicious code in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Sophos, which published its annual threat roundup Monday, said U.S.-based computers were responsible for sending 22% of the year&#8217;s spam, with China second at 15.9%, and South Korea third at 7.4%. Nine out of every 10 spam messages sent worldwide were sent from so-called &#8220;zombies,&#8221; computers that were hijacked and sent messages without their owners&#8217; knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On a per-capita basis, the U.S. has a disproportionate number of PCs, and a disproportionate number of them are unprotected,&#8221; says Ron O&#8217;Brien, senior security analyst for Sophos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From InformationWeek: The United States again led the world as a spam producing, malware hosting country last year, a security vendor said Monday, but China took top dishonor as the nation that generated the most malicious code in 2006. Sophos, which published its annual threat roundup Monday, said U.S.-based computers were responsible for sending 22% &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}