Akamai: 38% of Malicious Internet Traffic Comes from Indonesia2013-10-17 09:57 by DanielaTags: Akamai
Internet content delivery network Akamai has released its "State of the Internet" report for the second quarter of 2013. Highlights include the change in worldwide connection speeds and the huge increase of "attack traffic" originating in Indonesia. More than 752 million unique IPv4 addresses from 242 unique countries/regions connected to the Akamai Intelligent Platform, a 2 percent quarter- over-quarter increase and 13 percent more than the second quarter of 2012. Since a single IP address can represent multiple individuals in some cases – such as when users access the Web through a firewall or proxy server – Akamai estimates the total number of unique Web users connecting to its platform during the quarter to be well over one billion. The report states that half of all connections made to its network are currently running at 4Mbps or higher — a sign that "universal broadband" is finally starting to become not just an ideal, but a reality. Looking at global average mobile connection speeds, they ranged from 0.5 Mbps to 9.7 Mbps. Overall, the volume of mobile data traffic grew 14 percent compared to Q1 and nearly doubled year-over-year. Akamai's report also looks into malicious internet traffic. According to the report, 38 percent of such traffic comes from Indonesia — a big jump from the 21 percent in the first quarter. China is in second place with 33 percent (down from 34 percent), followed by the U.S. with 6.9 percent (down from 8.3 percent in Q1). Read more -here-
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