Top sources of attacks

Top Sources of Attacks Table 5 lists the top sources of attacks between October and December 2005. To determine the top sources of attacks, we looked at data from our Managed Security Services customers during this timeframe. We excluded all packets from private and unallocated internet addresses (such as RFC1918 addresses) from our analysis. We focused only on packets dropped by firewalls, and excluded packets accepted by firewalls
(most of which were legitimate) to produce our statistics. We found that 68.8% were from the United States, ten times the traffic from the next country on the list (China, at 6.6%).

Source Verisign

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