Akamai's first "State of the Internet" quarterly report finds China and the U.S. account for about 30 percent of Internet attack traffic...but the U.S. lags behind others in broadband penetration.

Internet distribution company Akamai has issued the first of what it claims will be an ongoing series of State of the Internet reports. (Registration required to view the full text.) In the report, the company finds that during the first quarter of 2008, China and the United States accounted for about 30 percent of all "attack traffic" on the Internet—but, surprisingly, a lot of that traffic was directed at network ports and services that haven't had major vulnerabilities for several years, suggesting the number of unpatched, still-vulnerable Windows systems connected to the Internet worldwide is still significant.