Nearly 7% of all internet traffic is malicious, says Cloudflare

Volume and scale of DDoS attacks ‘vast’

Penny Horwood
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Cloudflare has released its latest State of Application Security Report and it makes for grim reading.

Cloudflare is a huge content delivery network and security company and it has visibility of the volume, velocity and variety of vast quantities of internet traffic. The patterns in this aggregated ...

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