CyberTHREATS January, 14th 2009 by admin

Emerging markets face higher cyberthreat risk

Emerging markets such as the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) economies are at higher risk of being exposed to cyberthreats, according to a new report from security vendor MessageLabs.

Released Wednesday, the MessageLabs Intelligence: 2008 Annual Security Report noted that Brazil had the world’s biggest share of global bots, at nearly 10 percent. Turkey and China were ranked No. 2 and No. 3, with respective shares of about 9 percent, and over 7 percent. Russia and India were also among the top five.

Turkey, however, emerged as most at-risk of exposure to cyberthreats, according to the report. It had a score of 4.9 on an index indicating the global risk exposure, which also takes into account the Internet population of individual countries. Russia had a score of 3.1, Brazil 2.8 and India 1.5. With its large Internet population, China’s index score was a mere 0.4, comparable with that of the United States. [ZDNet]

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