Michael Gracie

Well who the heck knows, but I suspect they are American. I see zombies walking around every morning. In to Starbucks they go, and when they come out, they are live humans again. Unfortunately for me, I got the “zombie” part all mixed up (and did it while sounding moronic to boot).

We are talking about zombied computers here. Zombies are machines that have been infected with malicious code, and are now spewing code of their own, sending out spam, or just pinging the ports of every computer they can find and sending the information someplace else.

And according to the latest less-than-brilliant report, one in five zombies are from China. OK.
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Australia is a small country, isolated in many ways (besides Japanese tourists in Gold Coast). They aren’t isolated from computer security threats, however, and they pull no punches in cracking down on it. They recently raided a purported spammers house, and now they are looking ever deeper down the threat source chain.
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I am not sure whether the Fingerprint Sharing Alliance will capable of relieving service providers of the unending barrage of zombie-based directory harvesting and DDOS attacks, but at least it is a start.

Read ISPs share hacker info from The Register, for a little bit more information.
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CFCN of Calgary reported some useful tips on keeping your computer from become a zombie, in CFCN.ca - Calgary news from CFCN, CTV.

Let me add a few additional points:
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