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More than 2% of Internet Traffic Malicious |
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Written by David Noel-Davies
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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2% of overall internet traffic is malicious according to estimates by Arbor Networks. Most of the attacks are Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) related meaning that attackers use a network of computers across the globe to simply send a large volume of requests to the victim server, essentially flooding it with s0 much traffic that it can't keep up. The victim ultimately stops responding or goes down, creating a interruption in service for non-malicious users.
Arbor says that it is seeing 1,300 such attacks per day, and that spikes in the level of DDoS attacks can account for up to 5% of overall traffic.
Email comprises around 1-1.5 percent of internet traffic, notes Arbor.
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