Telefonica Launches Smart M2M; W/RT Monitoring

 
Telefónica Digital unveils ".. Smart M2M, a best-in-class web-based platform for the connectivity, management and control of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications .. Smart M2M Solution incorporates new advanced features such as real time monitoring of traffic type, volume and current consumption, technical supervision of lines (maps of connected devices, advanced diagnostics) and localization. It also offers innovative fraud detection functionalities, including the ability to restrict communications between a list of given devices or the possibility to establish traffic caps".

"Smart M2M Solution is already commercially available for Telefónica customers in Brazil and Spain and will soon be expanded to other countries, starting with Chile, Argentina and Czech Republic".

See "Telefónica launches its new Smart M2M Solution" - here.

[Prolexic Q4 DDoS Report]: 27.5% More Attacks; Average Attack 32 Hours, 5.9 Gbps

  

A recent report by Prolexic Technologies, find that the ".. scale and diversity of attacks increased against its global client base in Q4 2012 .. While Q4 media reports focused on large DDoS attacks primarily against U.S. financial services companies, Prolexic also mitigated 50+ Gbps DDoS attacks against clients in the e-Commerce and software as a service (SaaS) sectors"

Prolexic provided the following statistics for Q4, 2012:

	Q4, 2012	Change from Q3, 2012	Change from Q4 2011
Number of attacks		+27.5%	+19%
Infrastructure (network) attacks	Share - 75% SYN - 24%, ICMP - 18% UDP-15% DNS-4.7%	+17%*	+15%*
Application attacks	Share - 25% HTTP Get - 20%	+72%*	+30%*
Average Attack  length	32.2 hours	+67%	-6%
Average attack size	5.9 Gbps	+20%	+13%

^{* Increase in the number of attacks.}

See "Large-Scale DDoS Attacks Grow Bigger and More Diversified According to Prolexic’s Latest Report" - here.