South African cyber crime warning

If the measure of how well we're doing in the broadband stakes depends on the amount of online crime then I'd like to see us reaching Al Capone status. Bring it on.
 
evilstebunny said:
If the measure of how well we're doing in the broadband stakes depends on the amount of online crime then I'd like to see us reaching Al Capone status. Bring it on.
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Agree, as long as they are in proportion. And not 99-1 to online crime, 99 should the broadband penetration rate.
 
Improved broadband connectivity is often the key factor leading to increased botnet activity in a region.
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I don't get that. Surely an increase in users is the key factor. Improved speed and infrastructure, in itself, is only going to have a marginal impact.

But then who needs logic and reason when fear is your primary marketing tool.
 
Gatecrasher said:
I don't get that. Surely an increase in users is the key factor. Improved speed and infrastructure, in itself, is only going to have a marginal impact.
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I think he is referring to always-on and fast connections which may enhance the effectivity of spam bots and the like. Dial-up connections does not work as well with some of the cyber attacks out there...

But you are of course correct that security companies seldom say that cyber threats are decreasing and that the need for security services and software is not critical :D
 
lol. What are they going to attack from here with our broadband? a 512kbps upstream means they are going to own a zillion ADSL lines to do a DDoS against anything in the first worlds, and spam will be out of date by the time they've done all their bandwith top ups.
 
So, the conclusion is to reduce penetration to nearly zero to fight cyber crime (torrents, hacking, etc)?
 
Flood warnings from people who sell sandbags.
Who you gonna believe?
 
Dear Symantec,
Isn't this simply a summary of the economy of scale.
More people + Better access to them = More opportunities to steal
 
Symantec slows down computers with their BS, I should I believe them? :D
 
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