This blog completes our informal three week study of Internet daily traffic patterns. Using data from the Internet Observatory, we analyzed weekday application traffic across 110 geographically diverse ISPs, including some of the largest carriers in North American and Europe. We believe this report (and upcoming paper) represent the largest study of Internet traffic temporal [...]
After dark when the dinner dishes are put away and the kids are safely tucked into bed, the Internet subtly changes. Starting in the twilight of early evening, business traffic slows to a crawl, previously dormant applications flicker on home computer screens, and like clockwork, Internet activity begins its nightly climb towards a regular after [...]
Inspired by a friend’s question of which CIDRs to block first, I went looking into our malicious URL database for July, 2009, data and dug for the top IPs and netblocks. This was pretty easy: what URLs did the malware we analyze go to, what were the IP addresses associated, and then process that list [...]