China has a whole lot of Internet users
Posted by Maxim Weinstein
According to a story at Wired.com, Internet use in China is soaring:
China’s booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world’s biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.
The latest figure on Web use at the end of June is a 56 percent increase from a year ago, the China Internet Network Information Center said. It said the share of the Chinese public using the Internet is still just 19.1 percent, leaving more room for rapid growth.
Last month, we reported that China hosts over half of the infected websites reported to us by Google. Combine a whole lot of Chinese Internet users with a whole lot of infected Chinese websites, and you have the potential for one heckuva lot of bots and trojans on Chinese computers. I hope that groups in China will work together to educate the population (and software vendors, hosting companies, etc.) about the risks and how to stay safe.