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China, US – 2 Of the Highest Sources of Traffic Attack: Akamai Report
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The Akamai report for “State of the Internet” (Q1 – 2008). The report (pdf – registration required) looks mostly at data on the origins of attack traffic, network outages and de-peering events, as well as a look at broadband connectivity by geography.
India’s contribution to global attack traffic: India contributes 2.53% to global attack traffic and ranks among the global top ten in terms of countries with traffic attack origin (Graph below): During the first quarter of 2008, attack traffic originated from 125 unique countries around the world. China and the United States were the two largest traffic sources, accounting for some 30% of traffic in total. The top 10 countries were the source of approximately three quarters (75%) of the attacks measured. India was placed 10th in terms of countries where the attack traffic originated.
Many of the network ports targeted by the greatest volume of attack traffic were associated with worms, viruses and Trojans that spread across the internet several years ago. Akamai reckons this finding suggests many people are still failing to patch systems to defend against well-known risks.
India has also been notorious for sending out spam filled emails, some of which contain these kind of viruses.
From a global perspective, South Korea had the highest measured levels of “high broadband” (>5 Mbps) connectivity. In the United States, Delaware topped the list, with over 60 percent of connections to Akamai occurring at 5 Mbps or greater. At the other end of the bandwidth spectrum, Rwanda and the Solomon Islands topped the list of slowest countries, with 95 percent or more of the connections to Akamai from both countries occurring at below 256 Kbps. In the United States, Washington State and Virginia turned in the highest percentages of sub-256 Kbps connections. However, in contrast to the international measurements, these states only saw 21 and 18 percent of connections below 256 Kbps respectively.
In some other surveys, Japan tops the list for highest measured levels of high broadband.
No news on the Indian Broadband Scenario. Click HERE to read our review of the state of Broadband in India and why it matters.
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