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| In depth presentation of online attack methods by Akamai |
According to the newest report in Akamai’s State of the Internet, a known universal service provider, the three most terrible starting points of the trend of malicious online activities are certainly the United States, Russia, and China.
Finding out is not considered troublesome
This was discovered using the results that came from about 60,000 servers and countless numbers of daily internet requests. It has disclosed pertinent details as to how the web attacks are being accomplished. Numbers of global internet connections were also presented using the networks.
In addition, Akamai also spoke about the large number of activities activities that are coming from United States. Also, these malicious activities increased twofold during the first three months of the year.
United Kingdom ranked sixth when the topic is on internet connections. IP addresses in UK are very exclusive and the numbers reached about 20,008,664. As indicated in the recent report, approximately 465 million IP addresses are available and this increases yearly for about 16 percent.
Fast connections can also be specified
According to Akamai’s report, there are four cities in United Kingdom that are included in the top 100 broadband connection speeds. Oxford ranked fifth in the list, Southampton on the 57th, Bristol on the 58th, and on the 73rd was Cambridge. These cities possess average speeds of 14463Kbit per second, 8371Kbit per second, 8292Kbit per second, and 7840Kbit per second.
However, most of the fastest internet connections are actually located in Asia. Sixty-two percent of the total speedy connections are found in Asia and a huge part of it (48 percent) is in Japan. On the other hand, only a small amount is established in North America accounting for about just a fifth of the fastest internet connections.
Russia holds the title for online misdemeanors
As said by Akamai, attack traffic originates from 198 countries. This is lesser than that of last quarter with the quantity of 207 countries. The worst in the list of web lawbreakers is Russia, which has about 13 percent of the total traffics that are occurring. The next in line are the following countries: China, US, and Brazil.
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