BSNL most used network in Asia for ID theft: Study

March 16, 2013 04:01

Just 20 ISPs are responsible for half of the world's entire haul of Internet scam and spam emails, says a study.

The thesis (you can read it here in a PDF file), titled Internet Bad Neighbourhoods is the work of a pair of researchers, Moreira Moura and Giovane Cesare, from the University of Twente, who researched over 42,000 Internet Service Providers worldwide and found the following trends:

* Most phishing comes from Asia -- of that, Indian network BSNL came top of the list.

* The most crime-ridden network is Nigeria's Spectranet.

* The majority of bad ISPs are to be found in India, Brazil, and Vietnam.

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