China and U.S. lead in Internet attacks

[screwballl]

Yes and OSX was the first to be hacked.... second was Windows... but remember that it is not likely to have any security software or NAT firewall.

[onebxr]

Do you think it is any stretch for them to bring this concept to a firewall such as commodo, zone alarm, black ice etc... Remember these programs are made by man therefore are fallable. I remember reading that the Titanic was unsinkable!
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[drew and not u]

Back when you were a young man of only 11.

[screwballl]

I am not saying that they are unbeatable, I am saying that for a typical home user, it is enough to keep the bad stuff out and be worth more trouble than a hacker would try for a simple home user. These high end hackers you keep mentioning are not going to bother with a household IP unless it belongs to a government official or corporate head honcho. That is the key point, these hackers want infamy by going after large targets. So therefore Comodo and a NAT firewall will protect us as home users against the automated botnets that is the entire point of the OP story.

Akamai pointed out that a lot of the attacks came from "worms, viruses, and bots that spread across the Internet several years ago."

[drew and not u]

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[onebxr]

Originally Posted by screwballl

I am not saying that they are unbeatable, I am saying that for a typical home user, it is enough to keep the bad stuff out and be worth more trouble than a hacker would try for a simple home user. These high end hackers you keep mentioning are not going to bother with a household IP unless it belongs to a government official or corporate head honcho. That is the key point, these hackers want infamy by going after large targets. So therefore Comodo and a NAT firewall will protect us as home users against the automated botnets that is the entire point of the OP story.

so you think every hacker goes straight for the big league? Or do they start in the minors and work their way up?
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[screwballl]

as easy as it is to get into small companies, they start small and work their way up. Not with end users but companies, small mom and pop stores that have a small server behind a cisco router or whatever. The easiest way is to get into home computers without patches or security programs. That is a matter of starting a SSH or Remote sharing connection with a vulnerable IP address... the small business and office types tend to have more commercial type security so thats what they target just to get in but mostly not actually cause any damage.