MIT's Technology Review posts a nice little graph of Where Spam Is Born based upon research from Team Cymru, a security research firm in Burr Ridge, IL.

The leader of the pack of spam being sent is China followed by Brazil, Turkey and the US. The graph also shows the number of stormworm bots per country and other bots per country. According to the research there are very few Stormworm or other bots in China, while India has the most Stormworm bots but ends up eighth on the origins of spam.

RedFoxOne in comments suggests that it's only ...

Akamai says China and USA are leading sources of cyber attacks.

According to the report, of all the attacks during the first quarter of 2008 31 percent were originated from China and US. China?s share in attacks was 17 percent followed by US 14 percent.

Other countries leading cyber attacks are Argentina, Brazil, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey.

Most attacks were aimed at Microsoft Windows in the form of malwares, viruses and trojans. Around one-third of the attacks (30 per cent) targeted port 135, which is used for remote procedure calls in Windows.

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Via Newsvine comes an AP story on a New report identifies dangerous Web domains.

McAfee found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are ".hk" (Hong Kong), ".cn" (China) and ".info" (information).

Of all ".hk" sites McAfee tested, it flagged 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially dangerous to visitors; it flagged 11.8 percent of ".cn" sites and 11.7 percent of ".info" sites that way.

A little more than 5 percent of the sites under the ".com" domain ? the world's most popular ? were identified as dangerous.

Ooops! But then the story provides a few items of interest ...

Current Lifestream Apps are "good" at capturing real-time updates on life and thoughts, but very poor at capturing background history.

Whether this is a problem needing to be solved is a question that sites like DandeLife and Momenty are here to answer. Lots of folks put in their best effort to "delete" their pasts and avoid social connections that may "know too much" background information.

Any implementation that allows users to thoroughly document their pasts as a social media site should provide fine-grained privacy controls with strict defaults to limit accidental data leakage.

By pursuing a business model of cheap printers and expensive consumables, printer manufacturers have ensured the cost to connect a printer to public internet terminals is prohibitive, which must result in a lower paper consumption than if the per page printing costs weren't skewed by high refill cartridge prices.