The Web Traffic News

In a recent report from Akamai Technologies and the Networking @ IT Business Blog Russia is the #1 country where website attack traffic originates, or close to it anyway.  In the Akamai state of the internet report they said: “our observations show the attacks clearly originate in Russia, they could be coming from somewhere else [...]

     A cyber attack paralyzed the web site of Novaya Gazeta on recently in Russia after a massive denial-of-service attack.  The attacks were caused by an influx of computers all trying to connect to the news site at the same time, which overwhelmed the computer server that handles all of the sites web traffic.      Novaya Gazeta’s web site typically receives upto 120,000 unique visitors every day, but this attack was so strong that [...]