June 2, 2008 By News Report
Akamai Technologies Inc. last week announced the release of its inaugural "State of the Internet" report.
Beginning with the January to March 2008 time period (first quarter), Akamai will be publishing a quarterly "State of the Internet" report extrapolated from data gathered across Akamai's global server network. This report will include data on the origins of attack traffic, network outages and de-peering events, as well as a look at broadband connectivity by geography. In addition to providing a quarterly summary, Akamai will document trends seen in this data over time.
The report will also aggregate publicly available news and information about notable events seen throughout the quarter, including denial of service attacks, Web site hacks, and network events.
During the first quarter of 2008, for example, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 125 unique countries around the world. China and the United States were the two largest attack traffic sources, accounting for some 30 percent of this traffic in total. Akamai observed attack traffic targeted at 23 unique network ports. Many of the ports that saw the highest levels of attack traffic were targeted by worms, viruses and bots that spread across the Internet several years ago.
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