PHILIPPINES
- The Philippines has been tagged one of
the world's top sources of a dangerous kind of cyber "attack"
designed to take down entire computer networks and shut down key consumer
services.
The
latest report by Russian Internet security firm Kaspersky Labs showed the
Philippines ranking 13th on a list of 23 countries where "distributed
denial of service" or DDOS attacks originated in 2011.
A DDOS
attack makes a computer or network unavailable to its users by hackers in
control of several devices. This is done by flooding a server with more network
traffic than it can handle.
As a
consequence, the server is prevented from carrying out its normal functions
and, in some circumstances, crashes completely.
The
Philippines was one of four Southeast Asian countries to make the list, the
others being Malaysia which ranked 5th, Indonesia 18th and Vietnam 19th.
Over 90
per cent of all DDOS attacks came from the 23 countries on the list.
Some
two per cent of the attacks came from the Philippines, Kaspersky Labs analysts
Maria Garnaeva and Yury Namestnikov said.
"DDOS
attacks are used as an act of protest as well as a highly effective tool for
exerting pressure on competitors," Namestnikov said in a statement.
"It
comes as no surprise therefore that online trade (online shops, auctions,
message boards) was most frequently targeted," he said.
Kaspersky
said attacks were also conducted against businesses, including travel company
websites.
Unknown
groups conducted these attacks during the summer season when travel was at its
peak, as well as the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Last
year, the number of DDOS attacks around the world rose by 57 per cent.
"This figure may increase in the coming months of 2012," Namestnikov
said.
In
2010, the Philippines was one of the top 20 countries around the world with the
highest incidence of cybercrimes. Of the list of 20, six were from the Asia
Pacific.
Paolo
G. Montecillo
Philippine
Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network
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