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Most People Think Cyber-Espionage On Foreign Nations Is Ok

According to a recent research paper titled "2010 mid-year Security Threat Report" from Sophos, almost 63% of Web-surfers are of the opinion that their country is doing nothing wrong in spying on foreign countries by employing malicious software or hacking tricks.

Specifically, 49% of the survey respondents think that a DOS (denial of service) attack against a different nation for collapsing their communications or financial services is alright at the time of war, while 7% said that there was nothing wrong in executing a DOS assault on other countries during anytime.

Explaining a DOS attack, security specialists state that it's an operation for deactivating a computer utility for people designated to use it.

Furthermore as per Sophos, nearly 32% of respondents think that countries shouldn't be stopped from dropping malicious programs and infiltrating computer networks of foreign private organizations so as to carry out espionage for economic benefit. 23% indicated that this should be allowed only during wartime, 9% -during peacetime, and 68% -never.

Remarking about the results obtained, senior technology consultant Graham Cluley at Sophos stated that it somehow was astonishing that such a huge number of people felt that it was acceptable to utilize the Internet for carrying out espionage, or even to use it like an attack weapon. Sophos reported this on August 3, 2010.

Moreover, the survey disclosed that the country hosting most malware-laden websites worldwide was the United States. Reports Sophos, 42% of the greatest malware-laden online sites across the globe were hosted in USA, with China and Russia following at 10.75% and 6.13% respectively.

The United Kingdom was on No.6 being responsible for 2.41% of all malware-laden websites globally.

And while U.S was on the top for most malicious websites, Italy, Holland and France had also made it to the List ever-since 2010 began, hence the problem wasn't an isolated issue, stated Cluley. PC Advisor reported this on August 3, 2010.

Cluley added that the greatest problem was that very often the malicious websites were originally genuine, which hackers had attacked. Consequently, companies were likely to infect clients, exposing the latter to crime and fraud.

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