July 2014 Cyber Attacks Statistics

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It’s time to aggregate the data of the timelines of July (Part II and Part II) into (hopefully) meaning stats.

Before drilling down into the numbers, a recommendation is necessary: I will never give up repeating that these stats are necessarily an approximation since the sample is very heterogeneous, and just like all approximations they could leave some shadow zones. An example for this month is represented by the tide of cyber attacks under the umbrella of #OpSaveGaza. I am not interested to enumerate all the single attacks (also because it would be virtually impossible), so this operation appears like a single entry in the stats. Of course you have any suggestion to cope with such similar situations, they are absolutely more than welcome.

So, after this tedious, but necessary introduction, let’s rock with the data.

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Network layer

 

is responsible for the addressing and delivery of packets

Knows the address of the neighboring nodes in the network

Packages output with the correct network address information

Selects routes

Recognises and forwards to the transport layer incoming messages for local host domains

Example: Internet Protocol (IP) and Netware