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Indonesia Surpasses China As Source Of Cyber Attacks, Report Finds

Gally Articola

Friday, October 18th, 2013

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Nearly doubling its attack traffic in the past quarter, Indonesia now ranks as the source of more cyber attacks than China, according to a report from Cambridge-based cloud platform provider Akamai. Attack Traffic By Top Originating Countries (by source IP address, not attribution). Graph: Akamai. Indonesia took the top spot with 38 percent of attacks originating from within its borders during the second quarter of 2013. The South East Asian country accounted for only 21 percent of attacks in the…

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