The Internet content distribution company, Akamai said in its quarterly “State of the Internet” report that China and the United States are currently the world-leaders in Internet attacks.
Research shows that China is responsible for 17 per cent of hacking
attempts and denial of service attacks, with the U.S. coming in a close
second with 14 per cent. Of the 125 countries responsible for targeting
23 unique network ports, the U.S. and China accounted for 30 per cent of
attack traffic.
The report further reveals that the ten countries in the list which
accountes for 75 percent of all attacks, include Argentina, Brazil,
Japan, India, South Korea, and Taiwan. The most widespread attacks were
linked with Microsoft Windows. A third of the attacks were on port 135,
which is used for remote procedure calls using the Windows operating
system, media reports.
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The Internet content distribution company, Akamai said in its quarterly “State of the Internet” report that China and the United States are currently the world-leaders in Internet attacks.
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