Akamai Technologies, which monitors large amounts of Web traffic, said in last year's third quarter China was the world's No. 1 source of observed attack traffic, with 33% of such traffic.
Akamai Technologies, which monitors large amounts of web traffic, said in the third quarter of 2012 China was the world's No. 1 source of observed attack traffic, with 33% of such traffic.
That stat's just one slice of the sprawling cybersecurity picture painted by the company, which also ranks China as the foremost perpetrator of "observed attack traffic" in Q4 2012, numbering that country's share at 41 percent.
He might attack air traffic control systems and cause the collision of two civilian aircraft.
Within hours, according to the cybersecurity researchers at Panda Labs, the loose group of hackers that calls itself Anonymous launched a distributed denial of service attack that threw junk traffic at the web server of the blog that had made the WikiLeaks announcement, and by 4am had taken the site offline.
On the cyber attack front, Akamai reports that such traffic originating from China increased by 16 percent in Q3, making the country the source of roughly a third of attacks during the quarter.
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Understandably, the Reader shutdown was received not just as the end of an era but almost as an attack on those who count on it for traffic and attention.
Despite no concrete evidence of a breach or attack, the company says it is investigating unusual traffic patterns.
Organisers also said increased security measures put in place after the Glasgow airport terror attack had made a "major contribution to the traffic problems".
So says the BBC, that the internet is currently suffering under the largest cyber-attack yet known and that this is slowing down traffic and sites right across the internet.
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"If you visit the webpage, and do not have Javascript disabled, you will instantly, without user interaction, begin to flood a website of Anonymous's choice with unwanted traffic, helping to perpetuate a DDoS attack, " it said.
The analogy used is that usually a DoS attack is like clogging up the on off ramps of a freeway: this amount of traffic is like clogging up the freeway itself.
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The volume of traffic between Yahoo's back end admin system and the wider internet during the attack strongly suggested that a file of 22 million IDs had been stolen.
This so-called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack relies on having enough users, voluntary or not, to flood a site with so much traffic that it gets shunted offline.
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In 2002 they were flooded with traffic from tens of thousands of infected computers in an unsolved "distributed denial of service" attack.
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