India among top targets for web application attacks: Report
With over 1.1 crore web application attacks in the fourth quarter of 2016, India is one of the top target countries for web application attacks, according to a report by US-based content delivery network provider Akamai Technologies. While India ranked fourth, US topped the list with over 24 crore web application attacks in the country.
India is one of top target countries for web application attacks, according to Akamai Technologies' Q4 2016 State of the Internet/Security Report. With 11. 1 million,  India ranked fourth while US topped the list with 242 million web application attacks in the country. There has been a 27 per cent increase in total web application attacks in Q4. Amongst the Asian countries, India saw 8,638, 666 attacks sourced in the country while China topped the list with 14,275,358 attacks. Findings reveal that insecure Internet of Things (IoT) devices continued to be a major source of DDoS traffic. Spike botnets carried out the maximum DDoS attacks in Q4.  Also Read:  Cyber attacks caused more than 20 per cent revenue loss in 2016: Cisco