Cyber security has become the new ‘in-word’ worldwide as organisations and individuals struggle to protect themselves against attacks online.

With information growing exponentially in value and volume, cyber risks pose a serious threat to governments, businesses, economies and individuals.

Constantly evolving cyber security practices have helped nations like the United States, Canada and Australia to be better prepared for cyber attacks, according to experts.

On the other hand, the US – along with China and Turkey – has also been found to be one of the biggest source countries for cyber attacks in the world, as per the Q1 2016 security report by Akamai technology.

Most of these attacks originate from unknown hackers working in groups or individually, the report found.

In the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates is among the most targeted nations for cyber attackers and ranks 41 worldwide, according to a recent report by international software security group Kaspersky Lab.

The UAE’s financial and government sectors are the most targeted for cyber attacks, the report added.

http://gulfbusiness.com/revealed-10-countries-from-where-most-cyber-attacks-originate/

If you think you’re safe from a cyber-attack because you block “red-flag” countries such as Iran, Russia, North Korea, and China, think again. Most attacks are home grown.

A new report from security company Sucuri concluded that most malicious attacks originate in the United States. About 38 percent of all attacks came from the U.S., with 11 percent of these originating in California (which is my home state, and no, I was not one of the hackers). The number of U.S.-based attacks dwarfed the second-most common staging area for attackers: India with 7 percent.

The research conducted by Sucuri involved analysis of nearly 500-million blocked attacks that were intercepted by its software. According to the report, the attacks included “SQL injection, brute force attempts, and a variety of other exploit attempts.” The researchers traced the origin of the attacks via geolocation.
cyber attacks by country (photo credit: Sucuri - https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/07/browser-os-statistics-from-half-billion-blocked-exploit-attempts.html)

photo credit: Sucuri (https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/07/browser-os-statistics-from-half-billion-blocked-exploit-attempts.html)

The results were not surprising to the researchers. As Sucuri founder and CTO told SCMagazine.com, “There are misconceptions that attacks only come from red-flag countries and by blocking them you’re now safe… we knew that from previous analysis… even though a partial geo-blocking may be effective as a noise reducer, it won’t really stop most attacks.”
http://techgenix.com/cyber-attacks-usa/