A survey of cyberspace says that the United States enjoys the honor of being the world’s “top attack traffic source,” accounting for 12 percent of all such malicious data—eight percent of the globe’s in the third quarter of 2010.
This could represent the activities of “infected hosts that are looking for other hosts to spread to, or it may represent brute force attempts to log in to other systems,” according to the Akamai Corporation’s David Belson. It’s all in the server maker’s latest State of the Internet report (registration required).
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Posted on 26 January 2011. Tags: comes, cybercombat, Report, tops
