China delivers most online threats, UK has best mobile data
Source: Dave Neal
WEB WATCHER Akamai has released its latest report on the internet and has tagged China as the most prolific global source of attack traffic, and South Korea as having the best speeds.
The State of the Internet Q4 2014 report [PDF] fingered the glorious Chinese nation as the source of 40 percent of bad traffic. The US comes a distant second with 13 percent.
Akamai said that just under a third of all attacks were directed at Telnet Port 23. Denial of service attacks such as the ones on Facebook and Instagram increased quarter over quarter, and Akamai said that its customers reported 327 incidents during the quarter.
US businesses took the worst of this, with a reported 177 attacks in the three-month period, while the EMEA region faced 52 incidents, or 18 percent of assaults.
Banking threat Poodle made its presence felt during the period, and all industries, bar enterprises, experienced an increase in intrusion attempts.
On a more positive note, the report found that South Korea enjoys the best broadband speeds. Top-level fixed-line use in the country delivers a 22.2MB stream.
The best that people can hope for in the UK, and this is a one and a bit percent improvement, is 10.9MB. The UK has the 18th highest speeds in the world.
Local IPv6 bannermen do not have much to yell about either, and the UK and its ISPs are not found in the IPv6 adoption tables. Belgium enjoys the largest proportion of IPv6 traffic at 32 percent, while US service provider Comcast Cable is credited with 29 percent.
However, by the time we get to mobile technology the UK starts to look a heck of a lot better.
Akamai said that the UK has an average connection speed of 16Mbps, almost twice as much as Denmark, which takes the silver honours with 8.8Mbps.
"Over the course of 2014, we've seen healthy global growth across all of our key metrics for internet connectivity, broadband adoption and 4K readiness," said David Belson, editor of the report.
"The positive trends make an interesting contrast to a recent study which found that 4.4 billion people around the world do not go online, indicating a strong need for continued efforts to improve and deploy internet infrastructure globally."
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