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Each quarter, Akamai will be publishing a quarterly "State of the Internet" report. This report will include data gathered across Akamai’s global server network about attack traffic and broadband adoption, as well as trends seen in this data over time. It 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 second quarter of 2008, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 139 unique countries around the world. Japan and the United States were the two largest attack traffic sources, accounting for over 50% of observed traffic in total. Akamai observed attack traffic targeted at over 400 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. In addition, "SQL injection" Web site hacks continued to spread, infecting hundreds of thousands of Web pages.
Several significant Web site outages occurred during the second quarter, including problems at Amazon.com's e-commerce site, Slashdot.org, and several large shared hosting providers, as well as the "cloud computing" platforms delivered by Google and Amazon.com.
Akamai observed that from a global perspective, South Korea continued to have the highest measured levels of "high broadband" (>5 Mbps) connectivity. In the United States, Delaware once again topped the list, with over 65% of connections to Akamai occurring at 5 Mbps or greater. At the other end of the bandwidth spectrum, Rwanda and the Solomon Islands continued to top the list of slowest countries, with 93% or more of the connections to Akamai from both countries occurring at below 256 Kbps. In the United States, Washington State and the District of Columbia turned in the highest percentages of sub-256 Kbps connections. However, in contrast to the international measurements, these states only saw 21% and 16% of connections below 256 Kbps, respectively.
During the second quarter of 2008, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 139 unique countries around the world. Japan and the United States were the two largest attack traffic sources, accounting for over 50% of observed traffic in total. Akamai observed attack traffic targeted at over 400 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. In addition, "SQL injection" Web site hacks continued to spread, infecting hundreds of thousands of Web pages.
Several significant Web site outages occurred during the second quarter, including problems at Amazon.com's e-commerce site, Slashdot.org, and several large shared hosting providers, as well as the "cloud computing" platforms delivered by Google and Amazon.com.
Akamai observed that from a global perspective, South Korea continued to have the highest measured levels of "high broadband" (>5 Mbps) connectivity. In the United States, Delaware once again topped the list, with over 65% of connections to Akamai occurring at 5 Mbps or greater. At the other end of the bandwidth spectrum, Rwanda and the Solomon Islands continued to top the list of slowest countries, with 93% or more of the connections to Akamai from both countries occurring at below 256 Kbps. In the United States, Washington State and the District of Columbia turned in the highest percentages of sub-256 Kbps connections. However, in contrast to the international measurements, these states only saw 21% and 16% of connections below 256 Kbps, respectively.
Source: http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/
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What is not said in those few line is that my beloved country comes in first place when it comes unique IP addresses per inhabitant and on second place when it comes to ""high broadband" (>5 Mbps)".
If I move to the USA, I move to Delaware.
