January 18, 2010 | Computer | No Comments
If you are in the middle of working on a project and you have no idea of what you need to do to make the project runs smoothly, you may need to read this article. It will discuss about software whi...
[ read more ]
January 18, 2010 | Computer | No Comments
Internet is now a crucial thing to have. If you already have computers at home and want to connect it to the internet, then here is the guide. If the internet cable foe internet connection is ready th...
[ read more ]
January 18, 2010 | Computer | No Comments
Announced last year by Mozilla and the Khronos Group, WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is triggered at the development of web apps and pages with hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. But for it to become...
[ read more ]
January 18, 2010 | Computer | No Comments
Today tip will help you to save any webpage on your disk in proper way. Many times you find a webpage, which want to view or read when you are not connected to the internet. It's happened to you...
[ read more ]
January 18, 2010 | Computer | No Comments
The name would imply much more powerful and potentially devious capabilities, as seen in most games these days. Instead, the “God Mode” folder for Windows 7 supplies a tidy place to find nearly ...
[ read more ]
January 18, 2010 | Computer | No Comments
Online gambling can become a nice option of entertainment when you are lonely at home but don’t have enough time to go outside. The enjoying of online casino gambling can give the same fun with the ...
[ read more ]
January 18, 2010 | Computer | No Comments
Cloud computing is poised to win the title of most popular, and populist, buzzword of 2009. It certainly is gaining traction outside of IT. In fact, the idea of cloud computing has become so popu...
[ read more ]
January 18, 2010 | Computer | No Comments
In this modern era, the use of private webpage is become highly increasing. There are some web pages in the internet that will gives you update information about everything in the internet. If you are...
[ read more ]
January 18, 2010 | Computer | No Comments
In windows XP, you can store your data on hard disk using less space than normal size. There is no need to install any third party software to compress or decompress your data, you can use wi...
[ read more ]
January 18, 2010 | Computer | No Comments
Some ATI videocard owners have had a rough go lately, with complaints of gray screens and vertical line corruption running rampant. The issue prompted AMD to release a hotfix (see here), and going for...
[ read more ]
Posted on | January 18, 2010 | No Comments
Russia and Brazil are now the top hotspots for global Internet attack traffic, Net giant Akamai has said in its latest threat report, placing most of the blame on the hardy Conficker worm.
In the third quarter of 2009, the pair snatched the dubious honor from the USA and China, which had topped the table in previous quarters. Russia accounted for 13 percent of all such traffic, with Brazil on 8.6 percent, both large rises over the previous quarter, with the US now on 6.9 percent and China on 6.5 percent. (See tips on protecting your system.)
It’s hard to know whether to read too much into the figures given the wild swing shown by China in particular. The second quarter figures put that country on almost a third of all Internet attack traffic, so its fall is likely to be caused by a natural fluctuation in the types of attack rather than a major change to its importance for the hosting of Internet crime.
Akamai pins the blame for Russia and Brazil’s rise on Conficker, which uses port 445 for its botnet communication, not coincidentally the Microsoft directory service (MS-DS) port through which most traffic was directed. Both countries have a persistent problem with the worm. This port alone was the target for 78 percent of all attack traffic.
This left Telnet (port 23), NetBIOS (port 139), Microsoft-RPC (port 135) and SSH (port 22) a long way behind with shares from 2 percent to 4.4 percent of attack traffic. Ninety-five percent of all attacks went through only 10 ports, leaving a further 3,800 more obscure ports to share the remaining 5 percent of attack traffic.
“Although mainstream and industry media coverage of the Conficker worm and its variants has dropped significantly since peaking in the second quarter, it is clear from this data that the worm is apparently still quite active, searching out new systems to infect,” the authors note.
A mild frustration of reports such as this is the time delay built into their collation – the Akamai reports collects stats for July, August and September of last year, which makes them almost 4 months out of date. A lot can change in that time period.
Elsewhere in the report, Akamai collects some figures on broadband speeds around the globe. If the UK did well on security, showing low levels of attack traffic, on broadband it sinks into a mediocrity that will not surprise consumers struggling with poor throughput from almost any provider they choose. The UK’s average broadband speed was a measly 3.4Mbit/s, with barely one in five connections exceeding 5 Mbit/s.
Leave a Reply
