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From the News Desk
Tuesday, 11. March 2008
Pitcairn Islands Relays Most Spam Per Person, Reveals List
The top three spam-relaying countries—the United States, Russia and China—which accounted for 33.8 percent of all spam in 2007, are left out of the list of most spam per person, revealed IT security and control firm Sophos. According to Sophos, Pitcairn Islands gets the dubious honour of being the country to relay most spam per person.
According to the company spokesperson, between October-December 2007, the US relayed far more spam than any other country due to the sheer number of computers in the country that had been taken over by remote hackers. But when measuring spam emitted per capita, the results turned out to be very different. When the top three spam-relaying countries are considered in terms of population, the United States is in 64th position, Russia in 45th, and China plummets to 132nd.
Says Carole Theriault, senior security consultant at Sophos, “Most of the countries in this chart have very small populations compared to the usual offenders, but their totals are sky high when it comes to spam emitted on a per-person basis. Just because your PC is located on a remote island in the South Pacific doesn't mean it's not contributing to the global spam problem. All computer users, wherever they are in the world, need to wake up to the threats and ensure their PCs are properly protected.”
The following shows the top ten countries based on spam emitted per capita:
Other countries of interest:
Sophos recommends that all computer users protect their desktops, gateways and servers with IT security solutions that provide automatically updated protection against viruses, spyware, hackers, and spam.
According to the company spokesperson, between October-December 2007, the US relayed far more spam than any other country due to the sheer number of computers in the country that had been taken over by remote hackers. But when measuring spam emitted per capita, the results turned out to be very different. When the top three spam-relaying countries are considered in terms of population, the United States is in 64th position, Russia in 45th, and China plummets to 132nd.
Says Carole Theriault, senior security consultant at Sophos, “Most of the countries in this chart have very small populations compared to the usual offenders, but their totals are sky high when it comes to spam emitted on a per-person basis. Just because your PC is located on a remote island in the South Pacific doesn't mean it's not contributing to the global spam problem. All computer users, wherever they are in the world, need to wake up to the threats and ensure their PCs are properly protected.”
The following shows the top ten countries based on spam emitted per capita:
- 1. The Pitcairn Islands
- 2. Niue
- 3. Tokelau
- 4. Anguilla
- 5. The Faroe Islands
- 6. Monaco
- 7. Bermuda
- 8. Falkland Islands
- 9. Andorra
- 10. Aruba
Other countries of interest:
- 22. Singapore
- 38. Spain
- 39. Italy
- 50. United Kingdom
- 52. France
- 64. United States
- 67. Germany
- 85. Australia
- 89. Canada
- 132. China
- 136. Japan
Sophos recommends that all computer users protect their desktops, gateways and servers with IT security solutions that provide automatically updated protection against viruses, spyware, hackers, and spam.
