Akamai released data Wednesday detailing a plethora of attacks against its clients as well as the increase in broadband speeds seen around the world. Its quarterly State of the Internet report for the fourth quarter of 2013 is chock-full of data about broadband speeds, IPv6 deployment and new types of website attacks.
According to the report, the fourth quarter of 2013 saw a rise in the number of denial of service attacks. Akamai also drew attention to an attack seen in early January. It gave a detailed explanation of a type of attack where hackers used vulnerability scanners that are normally used by site owners to scan for problems in their sites, to probe for weaknesses in websites ahead of a suspected attack.
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