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Worst cyber-crime is in US, Russia
As I blogged yesterday, the IP addresses attacking me trace back to a Netherland hosting company called Ecatel Network.
ECATEL NETWORK
Ecatel has become notorious for hosting bad actors, from the Russian spammers to pedophile networks. It also has a reputation for brushing off requests for help from the victims.
Trying to figure out what was going on, I did a bit of research into the world of cyber-crime.
AKAMAI REPORT – CHINA LEADS CYBER-CRIME?
The mainstream media likes to portray cyber-crime as essentially a foreign threat. China, especially, is fingered as the bad guy.
For instance, in January, US-based Akamai Technologies issued a report placing China at the head of global hacking, responsible for 35% of cyber-attacks world-wide.
More recently, the US government pressed cyber-warfare charges against five of China’s army officers.
Nigerians scamsters are rumored to run a close second.
There are two things wrong with this picture. The first is the source of the information.
Akamai Technologies is a “content-delivery network” head-quartered in Cambridge, Massachussetts.
It was founded by an MIT applied math professor, Tom Leighton, and a graduate student at MIT, Daniel Lewin, later killed on AA flight 11, which crashed during the September 11, 2001 attack.
According to his MIT bio, Leighton is a specialist in cryptography, digital rights, and algorithms for network applications. He also chaired a Presidential committee on Cyber-Security.
Akamai’s co-founder, COO, and President was the founder of the Road-Runner cable service. Its CEO was a senior VP from IBM.
Akamai’s privacy policy states that it collects IP addresses and effectively tracks clients.
Its partners include Microsoft and Apple and its clients include the BBC, the White House, Facebook, Twitter, Adobe Systems, Netflix, Yahoo, ESPN Star (India), China Central Television and Al Jazeera, among many others.
How likely is it that reports from Akamai on cyber-crime are untouched by political pressure?
WORLD HOSTS REPORT – US, RUSSIA LEAD CYBER-CRIME
Point two. The statistics don’t support Akamai’s pious propaganda.
The Chinese do indeed have a very high number of IP addresses attached to their malicious activity. If sheer volume were the only criterion, China would dominate.
However, as far as the number of malicious sites and the level of threat involved, the world’s leading cyber-criminals aren’t Chinese. Not even close.
They are in the US and in Russia, closely followed by smaller countries like the Netherlands, the Ukraine, and Romania.
In Host Exploit’s authoritative World Hosts Report of March 2013, five of the top twenty malware hosts were based in the US; four were in Russia, two each in the Netherlands, Germany, and the Ukraine.
Chinanet Backbone was the only host from China that made the top twenty.
What was especially interesting to me was to find the originator of the attacks on my computer, Ecatel network, at the top of the list of the world’s leading hosts for malware.
Host Exploit also breaks down cyber-crime by country, with Russia leading the pack.
This is its list of the world’ top ten cyber-crime havens in 2013:
1. The Russian Federation (RU)
2. Belarus (BY)
3. Ukraine (UA)
4. The British Virgin Islands (VG)
5. The United States (US)
6. Romania (RO)
7. Netherlands (NL)
8. Poland (PL)
9. Turkey (TR)
10. Bulgaria (BG)
Dollar Dilemma…
At Lew Rockwell, David Calderwood writes:
“If one believes that the failure of the Federal Debt system is imminent, then one should be preparing for TEOTWAWKI (Lila: The End of The World As We Know It). In this event, prudent preparation includes quitting the job, selling the house, moving the family to a temperate rural area and converting all assets to guns, food, ammo, farmland, livestock, barter goods, and books on how to live an 18th century lifestyle.
The trouble is that preparing for TEOTWAWKI renders one in a very poor position should things not be quite so catastrophic. People are incredibly resourceful and the history of communism shows us that even unsustainable systems don’t necessarily collapse all at once.
If the federal government system survives for a period of time after the Federal Reserve banking cartel crashes (or more likely, is seized by an Act of Congress), instead of an immediate dollar collapse, surviving dollars would soar in value. Ironically, the closer any dollar credit exists to the U.S. Treasury, the longer it may survive. The idea in this case would be to hold the last surviving dollar credits, stepping off that boat to the dry land of hard assets when all vulnerable credits have disappeared and asset values have declined about as far as they’re going to. Then will be the time to flee dollars in fear of the appearance of ever-larger denominations of currency, the hallmark of currency hyperinflation.”
My Comment:
I’m playing both sides. I’ve left for a temperate clime, started scouting out my rural retreat, am on my way to learning how to skin squirrels, drive a buggy, and forage for roots (in a manner of speaking)….AND I cling to my dollars.
I’ve been a dollar contrarian…all through the ups and downs of the last three years. (It’s been a sickening ride) Why? Because someone who knows a lot about the world told me this a few years ago: “Don’t bet against the United States of America.”
[Note: That’s not a vote for the dollar, which I think has terrible fundamentals. It’s a contrarian approach to moving out of the dollar. And as always, if things change fast, I’ll change my mind with them. I’d modify that: don’t bet too confidently against the United States.