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- http://www.akamai.co...y/dataviz1.html
2009.10.27 - 36% above normal ...!
- http://www.akamai.co...ethodology.html
"Attack Traffic:
Akamai measures attack traffic in real time across the Internet with our diverse network deployments. We collect data on the number of connections that are attempted, the source IP address, the destination IP address and the source and destination ports in real time. The packets captured are generally from automated scanning trojans and worms looking to infect new computers scanning randomly generated IP addresses. The attack traffic depicts the total number of attacks over the last twenty-four hours.
Values are measured in attacks per 24 hours (attacks/24hrs). Regions are displayed as countries or states."
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- http://www.v3.co.uk/...ro-sees-blocked
27 Oct 2009 - "The sheer scale of the cyber security threat to businesses was highlighted again today, after new statistics from security vendor Trend Micro revealed that its Smart Protection Network (SPN) now blocks an average of more than four billion threats a day. SPN is Trend Micro's newest technology designed to fight today's threats as effectively as possible, combining cloud-based reputation technology with behavioural analysis techniques. The system stops many of the threats in the cloud, crucially negating the problems associated with traditional security tools, such as eating up processing power and network bandwidth... SPN has been up and running for 16 months, but saw significant growth between the third quarter of 2008 and the second quarter of 2009, when the number of global user queries jumped 289 per cent to over 29 billion a day. The number of threats blocked over the same period rose 277 per cent to just over four billion, the company said. Threats in this instance include infected files, as well as web destinations reached through the browser and infected PCs trying to connect to a resource on the internet..."
Edited by AplusWebMaster, 20 November 2009 - 09:11 PM.
When you look at it another way 4 billion detections, most of them worms and trojans, it is easy to realize how it can be so profitable for the bad-guys.
And (off-topic) how unhappy we all should be with the online ad merchants that fail to screen content or even make a rudimentary investigation of the source IP and paying company before blindly snatching the ad money.
