The summary of the document is:
1) China remained the top source of observed attack traffic at 16%, followed by the US at 12% and Turkey at 7.6%. Attack traffic concentration among the top 10 ports declined this quarter.
2) Usage of the TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA cipher increased 44% this quarter to 14.8%, while other ciphers like RC4-SHA-128 declined.
3) In June, nearly 10.5 million passwords were disclosed after attackers compromised three websites that were not using proper password hashing techniques.
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Akamai State of the Internet Report, Q2 2012
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3. Letter From the Editor
After the success of 2011’s World IPv6 Day event, the Internet Society organized the World IPv6 Launch event in June
2012, promoting it with the tag line “This Time It Is For Real”. The associated Web site (http://www.worldipv6launch.
com) noted “Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and Web companies
around the world are uniting to redefine the global Internet and permanently enable IPv6 for their products and
services on 6 June 2012.” By all indications, this year’s event was a success as well, and it came none too soon, as
September saw RIPE, the European Internet registry, announce that they were down to their final “/8” block (~16
million) of IPv4 addresses, and ARIN, the regional Internet registry for the Americas, announce that they only had
three “/8” blocks remaining. It is critical that service providers, equipment manufacturers, and content providers
continue planning for a long-term transition to IPv6 while enabling support for it now.
The state of broadband connectivity in the United States also continued to be a key area of government focus during
the second quarter. The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a report that examined
how the country’s ISPs fared when actual download speeds were compare to advertised download speeds. In addition,
President Obama signed an executive order intended to “ensure that agencies charged with managing Federal prop-
erties and roads take specific steps to adopt a uniform approach for allowing broadband carriers to build networks
on and through those assets and speed the delivery of connectivity to communities, businesses, and schools.” The
White House also announced the “US Ignite” partnership between cities, corporate and non-profit entities, and
national research universities, charged with developing new services to take advantage of high-speed broadband
networks. At a state level, based on interactions that I have had with various folks working on “local” efforts, a lot
of attention is being paid to connection speeds and broadband adoption within the states (and how to improve
it, of course), not to mention concern about how a given state compares to other similar/neighboring states.
Going forward, as IPv6 adoption increases, broadband connectivity (in the U.S. and around the world) continues to
improve, and new applications are developed to take advantage of this improved connectivity, Akamai stands ready
to help customers, partners, and end users exploit these advantages to their fullest potential, ensuring optimal deliv-
ery speeds and unmatched scalability. And with this increased usage will come a wealth of additional data that we
will be able to aggregate, analyze, and present in outlets such as the State of the Internet report and Akamai IO.
As always, if you have questions, comments, or suggestions about the State of the Internet report, connect with
us via e-mail at stateoftheinternet@akamai.com, or on Twitter at @akamai_soti.
– David Belson