USA No.1: For Malicious Internet Activity

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Romanian hackers, eat your hearts out: The United States has far and away the most malicious code, spam, phishing, attack and botnetwork activity on the planet, according to Symantec's most recent semi-annual Internet Security Threat Report.
In this, its 11th edition of the report, Symantec has for the first time ranked countries as far as their Internet malfeasance is concerned. Tapping into its global intelligence network, Symantec found that the United States spawned 31 percent of the worldwide total for malicious activity. China came in second with 10 percent, and Germany came in third with 7 percent.... E-Week has more.