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[Attacks at 191 % above normal]

FYI...

Attacks at 191 % above normal
- http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html
2010.06.04 @07:38AM edt - 651 attacks / 24 hours ...

- http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/realtime_web_methodology.html
"Attack Traffic: ... The packets captured are generally from automated scanning trojans and worms looking to infect new computers scanning randomly generated IP addresses. The attack traffic depicts the total number of attacks over the last twenty-four hours. Values are measured in attacks per 24 hours (attacks/24hrs). Regions are displayed as countries or states..."

 

[Akami - Attack traffic at 206% above normal]

FYI...

Akami - Attack traffic at 206% above normal
- http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html
2010.06.05 @08:53AM edt - 765 attacks / 24 hours ...

 

[Akami - Attack traffic at 82% above normal]

FYI...

Akami - Attack traffic at 82% above normal
- http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html
2010.06.15 @14:50 edt - 674 attacks / 24 hours ...

- http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/zero-day-connection
June 14, 2010 - "... The term Advanced Persistent Threat (APT*) is fashionable at the moment — and we hesitate to use it — but an active attacker that uses a zero-day to target their victims over such a long period of time seems to be the kind of attacker that this term applies to..."
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Persistent_Threat