DDoS attacks hit one in five UK businesses in 2012

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By John E Dunn
Techworld
16 July 2013

One in five UK businesses experienced a DDoS attack at some point during 
2012, a survey by analytics firm Neustar has discovered, a percentage 
still significantly lower than that experienced by their US equivalents.

Overall, 22 percent of the 381 organisations participating in the annual 
trends study reported DDoS attacks, compared to 35 percent experiencing 
the same in a separate study carried out among US firms in 2012.

However, the underlying UK and US rates were probably very similar once 
the effect of suspected Iranian-backed DDoS attacks on the US banking 
sector are stripped out, the firm said without referring to the country by 
name.

Within the overall figure a core of sectors experienced much higher 
incidence of DDoS, specifically telecoms (53 percent), e-commerce (50 
percent), and retail (43 percent); government and public sector (25 
percent), technology (16 percent) reported lower levels with finance a 
notable trailer at a surprising 17 percent.

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