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Title: See Live Cyber Attacks at Norse's map - Right Now !?
Post by: Samker on 29. June 2014., 09:07:40

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The constant barrage of headlines trumpeting high-profile security breaches makes it easy to understand at a high level that hack attacks are on the rise, but mere words alone don't truly convey the scope of the constant threats. A mesmerizing example of data visualization by computer security firm Norse lets you see penetration attempts in real time: http://www.norse-corp.com/ , via a DEFCON-esque map that feels like it was ripped right from the old WarGames movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames

Witnessing the constant ping-ping-ping of individual penetration attempts is hypnotic. If you watch long enough, the map will explode in a frenzy of color, as coordinated mass-hack attacks blast across the globe—most often out of China, and often pointed toward the U.S. The U.S. itself is the steady number two on the map's "Attack Origins" list, however.

But now for the really scary part: This map reveals only the tiniest possible tip of the hack-attack iceberg—penetration attempts against a subset of Norse's network of "honeypot" traps alone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing))
The actual number of hack attempts lighting up the web at any given moment is far, far greater than this nifty experiment can ever possibly show.

Anyway, check it out. Norse's map will give you a healthy respect for what security professionals and websites across the globe have to deal with day in and day out, far more vividly than simple statistics on a page ever could: http://map.ipviking.com/

(PCW)

Title: Re: See Live Cyber Attacks at Norse's map - Right Now !?
Post by: devnullius on 30. June 2014., 15:55:57

Nice one! And: horrible! :(

Live Attacks by Country
China   14984916
United States   11286912
Bulgaria   4725160
Netherlands   2773376
Other Country   1121036
France   1043876
Russian Federation   1040968
Hong Kong   1033092
Canada   937900
Korea, Republic of   776420
Germany   747628
Taiwan   646024
Italy   597212
Japan   396396
India   386008
Brazil   347844
Turkey   337164
Romania   301876
Ukraine   252036
United Kingdom   251396
Thailand   246840
Vietnam   217224
Colombia   217020
Poland   211940
Australia   206472