07 Apr
DDoS attacks account for 3% of net traffic
Internet research firm Arbor Networks has calculated that up to three per cent of the internet traffic is clogged up with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, with peaks of up to five per cent.
The company has just spent 18 months collecting data from 68 ISPs covering over 100,000 interfaces on nearly 1,300 routers. Arbor estimates that somewhere in the region of 13,000 DDoS attacks are being made every day.
By contrast The Register reports that email accounts for one to 1.5 per cent of internet traffic, with 66 per cent of email classified as spam.
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tech.co.uk