LOIC milestone.The DDoS tool, Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC LOIC Logistics Organization Integration CommitteeLOIC Low Orbit Ion Cannon ), hit a milestone in the first week of May. Cumulative downloads for 2012 have already surpassed cumulative downloads for 2011. In 2011, there were 381,976 total downloads. That week, total LOIC downloads exceeded the total downloads from last year. It only took four months or, more precisely, 112 days. The actual break even date was 22 April (Vladimir Vladimir (vlədyē`mĭr), city (1989 pop. 350,000), capital of Vladimir region, W central European Russia, on the Klyazma River. A rail junction, it has industries producing machinery, chemicals, cotton textiles, and plastics. Lenin's birthday, incidentally). What does this mean? * There were about 3,432 downloads per day. * 142 downloads per hour. * 2.3 downloads per minute. There was a large burst of downloads early in the year driven by attacks on the FBI and other government agencies. Downloads have dropped off significantly since then, likely due to the conversion of LOIC into a Javascript version that requires no download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. (and was used to great effect in Anonymous Brazil attacks on banks). Another interesting trend? The change from year to year in downloads by country. The US, France and Brazil were the respective gold, silver and bronze medalists. However, France has caught up significantly. Germany saw the biggest drop, moving from 3rd place to 6th. France was up more than 35% and Brazil saw the biggest jump with a 60% increase in downloads. www.imperva.com |
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