{"id":147787,"date":"2022-10-08T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/paper-reveals-a-quarter-of-the-worlds-internet-users-rely-on-infrastructure-that-is-susceptible-to-attacks"},"modified":"2022-10-08T13:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T18:23:06","slug":"paper-reveals-a-quarter-of-the-worlds-internet-users-rely-on-infrastructure-that-is-susceptible-to-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/paper-reveals-a-quarter-of-the-worlds-internet-users-rely-on-infrastructure-that-is-susceptible-to-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Paper reveals a quarter of the world\u2019s internet users rely on infrastructure that is susceptible to attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paper-reveals-a-quarter-of-the-worlds-internet-users-rely-on-infrastructure-that-is-susceptible-to-attacks3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About a quarter of the world\u2019s internet users live in countries that are more susceptible than previously thought to targeted attacks on their internet infrastructure. Many of the at-risk countries are located in the Global South.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the conclusion of a sweeping, large-scale study conducted by computer scientists at the University of California San Diego. The researchers surveyed 75 <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/countries\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to study the topology of the internet to find weak links that, if compromised, would expose an entire nation\u2019s traffic,\u201d said Alexander Gamero-Garrido, the paper\u2019s first author, who earned his Ph.D. in computer science at UC San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a quarter of the world\u2019s internet users live in countries that are more susceptible than previously thought to targeted attacks on their internet infrastructure. Many of the at-risk countries are located in the Global South. That\u2019s the conclusion of a sweeping, large-scale study conducted by computer scientists at the University of California San Diego. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}