Japan tops world in attack traffic, Akamai reports

What Japan lacks in geographic size, it more than makes up for in Internet attack traffic.Japan accounted for 30 percent of all attack traffic monitored worldwide for the second quarter of 2008, according to a new study issued by content delivery network provider Akamai. The study, which was conducted by monitoring Akamai’s global network of more than 30,000 servers, measured distributed denial-of-service attacks, Web site hacking attempts and DNS hijackings for 139 countries around the world. The United States had the second-highest percentage of attack traffic for the second quarter, at 21.5 percent, while China came in third at 16.8 percent.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/090908-japan-attack-traffic.html
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