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| Attackers: U.S. Beating China, Russia Beating Both |
| Tuesday, 27 July 2010 19:57 |
 Although China has 30M more broadband subscribers, the U.S. is leading in one statistic: attack traffic. According to Akamai's new State of the Internet, the U.S. originates 10% of attacks and China 9%. Russia ahead of everyone at 12%, while Taiwan, Brazil and Italy rank high. 74% are coming on Port 445. Carriers can generally reduce malware by monitoring outgoing traffic for obviously compromised machines and working with their users to fix things. The high U.S. rate suggests that some carriers are being lazy and therefore increasing Internet problems. Some of the 20,000 jobs being eliminated at AT&T and Verizon were probably staffers who kept malware down. These are "non-revenue positions" and therefore more likely cut.
I'd welcome tips on how carriers can reduce outgoing attacks from the pros in the business. I've many subscribers at Sandvine, Arbor, Cisco and the carriers who work on this.
Akamai has servers inside of hundreds of networks so has some of the best data. Overall, they found Internet speeds worldwide down 1% year to year, probably reflecting more mobile connections. Japan, Korea and Hong Kong are ahead of everyone else in speed, with the usual smaller Europeans scoring well. Romania runs surprisingly fast, perhaps because intense competition persuades carriers to offer top speeds at the same price. Cuba and most of Africa were below 256K for most connections, something the new underwater cables should change.
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| Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:26 |