DDos attacks spiked in Q3 2013 Since Akamais stats focus on the Internet as a whole, the reports section on security dealt with wide-scale DDoS attacks. On the whole, such attacks were up sharply from 2012, with 807 attacks registered through Akamais networks in Q1 through Q3 2013, as opposed to 768 for all of 2012. Whats more, a good chunk of the attacks for Q3 focused on port 445, the same port exploited by the infamous Conficker and Sasser worms. (This might be a reflection of the relatively large amount of Windows XP systems remaining in service.) China leapt into first place as the source of attacks, with 35 percent originating from there. No. 2 is Indonesia, the former attack leader, with 20 percent; and No. 3 is the United States, with 11 percent. But one deceptive aspect of these statistics -- which Akamai acknowledges -- is that the attacker might not always be in the same geographic location as the attack source.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 02:02:11 +0000
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