DDoS Attacks on the Rise
Whenever I hear some newbie blogger whine about “online bullying”, I just roll my eyes. Kids, it’s all fun and games until some skiddie takes you offline with a DDoS attack. As The New York Times points out, DDoS attacks are on the rise. …such cyberweapons are now routinely used during political and military conflicts, [...]|
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I’m curious as to where you get your stats on the total bandwidth consumed. I’ve heard that e-mail traffic itself is about 40% of the internets total traffic, torrents being 30% and the rest being misc.
I’m not sure about email only getting 1.5% of all the internet traffic. I mean, sure, email is fairly small compared to torrents, streaming and various file downloads online, but everyone who goes online has access to it anyway, so that has to count for something more than 1.5%.
Do the people who initiate Denial of Service attacks get paid or something? Because if not, those guys just have too much time on their hands. And its not good.