IBM reporting that NZ is the 2nd biggest source of internet security attacks is just plain *weird*!
Lets face it, NZ's modest on-line population, crippled by high connection costs, and most of 'em still on dial-up being responsible for 1.2 million attacks ... in whose reality!
Compare that to the size of the on-line population in just about *any* other country.
"Suspicious activity was traced" being the only clue to what they are talking about, but if the record for stuff that bounces off our NZ-based firewall is to be any guide, Taiwan and Korea are way up there, even above the US.
If they were talking about penetrations, or successful exploits, I am sure that we would be away of an active hacking underground, so I'm picking they are merely refering to probes and scans being traced.
Perhaps IBM considers that it is inappropriate for them to point the finger at political and economic "allies" such as Australia, Singapore, Korea and Taiwan, but it's OK to blame those anti-nuclear peaceniks in the South Pacific.