Bringing Down The Internet …
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4 min readAug 5, 2018
One of my favouriate talks at a recent Big Data in Cyber Security conference was presented by Dave Lewis of Akamai. Few companies know the Internet better than Akamai, and their State of the Internet publications gives a heart beat analysis of the current state of the Internet, and its associated risks. Here is the talk:
We were lucky enough to feature in an Akamai State of the Internet publication for our TFTP Reflection Attack [here], and Akamai’s reports are a must read document [here]. For DDoS, the report, between Q4 of 2016 and 2017:
- A 14% increase in total DDoS attacks.
- A 14% increase in infrastructure-layer (layers 3 & 4) attacks.
- A 4% increase in reflection-based attacks.
- A 22% increase in application-layer attacks DDoS attacks.
- A 115% increase in application-layer attacks.
The countries sourcing the most DDoS has moved from the US and UK to Germany and China (and who now source over half attacks):
