Malware around the world - Made in China

ChinaTechNews gives news from an analysis by Sophos, showing a sharp rise in web-based threats. Sophos uncovered an average of 29,700 new infected web pages every day, around 80 percent of which were located on hacked legitimate sites.
As of June 2007 the top ten countries hosting malware-infected websites are:
1. China (including Hong Kong) at 59.3%;
2. United States at 23.9%;
3. Russia at 3.6%;
4. Germany at 1.7%;
5. Ukraine at 1.4%;
6. Italy at 1.0%;
7. Taiwan at 0.8%;
8. Brazil at 0.8%;
9. United at Kingdom 0.8%;
10. Canada at 0.6%.
The news item at http://www.chinatechnews.com/2007/07/04/5592-china-top-malware-source/

Google gets Chinese ICP licence - almost

According to eweek.com, citing a Reuters item, Google Inc. has received "preliminary approval" (whatever that means when dealing with licenses in China) by MII to offer online content. This is apparently primarily not about content in general, but about the Google News service offering news under google.cn domain. This goes beyond a regular VAS license, as the offering of news (even though these news may be merely collected from other news sources, as is typical of Google News) requires a specific license on top of the VAS one. PLUS if you want to become a true news site creating your own (journalistic) content, that is yet another license, of course…  

Full item: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2148617,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594