MBs Windows Security

I was playing around with Google Trends today which is always interesting trying to find a correlation between search volume of various terms (do more people hack when it snows?)

I use Google’s keyword tool, to find out the most popular search phrases for different keywords and here were some popular learning-to-hack searches I found:

how to hack a computer
how to hack hotmail
how to hack website
how to hack account.

So I threw these phrases into this Google Trends search and didn’t really see anything interesting in the trends themselves, but on the bottom half of the page where it ranks search volume by country I did see something interesting:

Apparently, a lot of people in Pakistan want to learn to hack, especially how to hack Hotmail. Well, at least they are doing a lot of Google searches on it.

What’s even more interesting is the fact that according to this page, Pakistan only has 824,616 IP addresses, which is about .03% of all the IP addresses in the world. If you were to adjust the above chart to show search volume per IP address, I would guess those bars would be off the chart.

So is this a hint of some new terrorist threat? Or do Pakistanis want to become better pen testers to get jobs as security consultants? Or is this perhaps related to some government or law enforcement program over there? (Since you Pakistanis out there searching so much for these terms will inevitably find this page in your results, maybe one of you could tell me).

Well I don’t know why their search volume is so high, but it might be time to start watching for those IP addresses in your firewall and IDS logs. And if you teach classes on hacking, apparently that market is ripe.

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