Norse Cyberattack Map

[Renew Deal]

This map displays detected cybery attacks from around the world. I don't know how accurate it is. While I was watching, a massive telnet attack was made from multiple Chinese locations against an entity in St. Louis. St. Louis is under constant attack. What is located there? Is it the government?

http://map.ipviking.com

Edit: Here's how it works:

They create honeypots, which are basically mouse traps for attackers. These honeypots spoof as enterprises, banks etc which are distributed worldwide. They have over 5 million emulations towards the internet. These emulations include users, server, infrastructure.
Attackers excel in exploiting systems which they know very well.
To trap maximum type of attackers Norse creates versatile honeypots which mimic as Microsoft Exchange servers, Linux systems, ATMs etc.


http://www.quora.com/Network-Security/How-does-the-Norse-IPViking-Live-product-work

[android fan]

1. Playstation Network

is in St. Louis, and some are doing post-Ferguson DDoS.... they're all idiots anyway.

[salin]

2. That is an interesting map. Where/how did you find it?

It does seem to indicate that St. Louis (something/s) are either being targeted, or perhaps have been discovered to be vulnerable. Not only from China.

[Renew Deal]

5. Someone I know sent it to me

I wonder what's there. Wouldn't surprise me if it was related to government/military.

[Warpy]

3. Huge attacks against Seattle, too

I guess Microschlock and Google are just too appealing to leave alone. They look like DDOS attacks.

It's amazing to see this bullshit in real time and how much of it is originating with government spy vs. spy buffoonery.

Eventually they'll kill the net. I'll miss it.

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. This reminds me of a scene from Wargames.

Real time war without the blood.

[daredtowork]

6. I love that map!

Watch out, though - it can hypnotize you.

My understanding is that it's real-time, but it's only a fraction/sample of the activity actually occurring.

Also, I wonder if there if they would hide it if some super-secret category of activity is going on. For example, do they have agreements with the Pentagon to hide signals coming from certain US facilities?

The other thing I liked about that map is it gives you some insight into how complexity of the situation, so when government mouth-pieces start to frame cyberwars in black-and-white Cold War terms, you know how full of beans they are.