Beeindruckend

Letzte Woche hatte ich Besuch aus Sichuan (China) auf einem FTP-Server. Um genau zu sein, klopfte der Besuch etwa 20.000 Mal entweder als Benutzer «admin» oder «administrator» an. Dem Angriffsprofil nach zu urteilen, handelte es sich wohl eher um einen minderklugen Angreifer, wahrscheinlich das Schlusslicht eines ersten Informatiksemesters. Wer sonst versucht sich so anzumelden. An einem FTP?

Naja, wie dem auch sei. Ich habe den Quellrechner spaßeshalber angepingt. Etwa 150 Millionen Mal. Nur, um sicherzugehen. Das durchschnittliche RTD betrug etwa 350ms. Bis nach Sichuan sind es etwa 7560km. Eine Antwort legt also 15.120km in etwa 350 ms zurück. Das sind 43,2 km/ms, also 43.200 Kilometer pro Sekunde. Das Paket rennt also in weniger als einer Sekunde einmal um den Äquator. Das ist etwa 5,6 mal schneller als ein Space Shuttle. In einer Stunde legt es gar 155.500.000 km zurück.

Das sind so die kleinen Momente, in denen ich trotz allem Digital Nativesein einen kleinen Moment innehalte und dieses riesige, unsichtbare Wunderwerk, Internet genannt, wirken lasse.

Dear Marcus:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT), Project Honey Pot achieved a
milestone: receiving its 1 billionth spam message. The billionth message was
an United States Internal Revenue Service phishing scam sent to an email
address that had been harvested more than two years ago. More than just a
single spam email, the billionth message represents the collective work of
you and tens of thousands of other web and email administrators like you in
more than 170 countries around the world. Together we have built Project
Honey Pot into the largest community tracking online fraud and abuse.

To celebrate this milestone, we sifted through five years of data to learn
more about spam and the spammers who send it. As a small token of thanks for
your help, we wanted to share some of our more interesting preliminary
findings. Click the following link for the Full Report:

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/1_billionth_spam_message_stats.php

Highlights include:
- Monday is the busiest day of the week for email spam, Saturday is the
quietest

- 12:00 (GMT) is the busiest hour of the day for spam, 23:00 (GMT) is the
quietest

- Malicious bots have increased at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of
378% since Project Honey Pot started

- Over the last five years, you'd have been 9 times more likely to get a
phishing message for Chase Bank than Bank of America, however Facebook is
rapidly becoming the most phished organization online

- Finland has some of the best computer security in the world, China some
of the worst

- It takes the average spammer 2 and a half weeks from when they first
harvest your email address to when they send you your first spam message,
but that's twice as fast as they were five years ago

- Every time your email address is harvested from a website, you can expect
to receive more than 850 spam messages

- Spammers take holidays too: spam volumes drop nearly 21% on Christmas Day
and 32% on New Year's Day

- And much more.....

We have published it under the Creative Commons Attribution license, so
don't hesitate to share anything you find interesting. In the end, we
couldn't have gathered this data without you.

Thank you for all your help over the last five years. Here's to wishing you
happy holidays and a relatively spam-free New Year.

Sincerely,

The Project Honey Pot Team

Hier ist übrigens der Link zur Seite.