{"id":101440,"date":"2014-05-01T10:59:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T08:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=101440"},"modified":"2014-05-01T11:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T09:00:52","slug":"top-internet-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/101440-top-internet-attacks.html","title":{"rendered":"Top Internet attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akamai has released its Q4 2013 State of the Internet report, which shows that Port 445 (Microsoft-DS) remains the most targeted Internet attack port, with most attack traffic originating from China.<\/p>\n

Akamai maintains a distributed set of agents deployed across the Internet that monitor attack traffic.<\/p>\n

Based on data collected by these agents, Akamai is able to identify the top countries from which attack traffic originates, as well as the top ports targeted by these attacks.<\/p>\n

During the fourth quarter of 2013, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from source IP addresses in 188 unique countries\/regions. China remained in the top slot, growing to 43% of observed attack traffic.<\/p>\n

Overall attack traffic concentration across the top 10 countries\/regions was up slightly from the third quarter, growing to 88% of observed attacks.<\/p>\n

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Internet attack traffic top countries<\/p><\/div>\n

Port 445 remained the most targeted port, growing once again and reaching 30% of observed attacks. The volume of attacks targeting Port 80 remained steady at 14%.<\/p>\n

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Attack traffic top ports<\/p><\/div>\n

During the fourth quarter, Akamai customers reported being targeted by 346 DDoS attacks, 23% more than in the prior quarter, and nearly 75% more than in the fourth quarter of 2012.<\/p>\n

Enterprise and Commerce customers together accounted for just under 70% of the reported attacks during the quarter, while just under half of the total attacks were reported by customers in the Americas.<\/p>\n

In addition, the fourth quarter saw the rise of a set of attacks in which the Skipfish and Vega Web application vulnerability scanners were used to target a variety of organizations, looking for Remote File Inclusion (RFI) vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

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DDoS attacks<\/p><\/div>\n

\"DDoS<\/a>

DDoS attacks by sector<\/p><\/div>\n

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Akamai\u2019s State of the Internet report reveals the top countries and top computer ports related to Internet attack traffic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":77040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3340,2242,35,21903],"class_list":["post-101440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-akamai","tag-ddos","tag-headline","tag-internet-attacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101482,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101440\/revisions\/101482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}