More out of curiosity than paranoia, I have carried out a small
geographical analysis of rejected "intrusion attempts" at my home router
(this consists of dropped TCP packets and ICMP (ping) requests).
Over the last seven months or so, there have been a total of 2318. By
country of originating IP address, the top 5 are:
China | 483
United Kingdom | 455
Russian Federation | 167
Germany | 74
Spain | 68
I am curious as to why the United Kingdom should figure so highly. It is
my own location, which is undoubtedly relevant, but I don't really
understand the reason. The Internet is global, so why should such a high
proportion of these unsolicited packets originate from my own domicile?
If this is not an appropriate forum for the question, please forgive me.
For anyone interested, the full results are appended below:
country | intrusions
---------------------------+------------
China | 483
United Kingdom | 455
Russian Federation | 167
Germany | 74
Spain | 68
Italy | 68
France | 67
Japan | 58
Australia | 48
India | 45
Bulgaria | 43
Israel | 36
Ukraine | 30
Brazil | 26
Taiwan | 26
Netherlands | 25
Korea Republic of | 25
Turkey | 25
Switzerland | 23
Sweden | 22
Egypt | 21
Finland | 21
Vietnam | 20
United States | 18
Lithuania | 17
Saudi Arabia | 16
Indonesia | 15
Morocco | 15
Malaysia | 15
Poland | 14
Thailand | 14
Mexico | 13
Pakistan | 13
Czech Republic | 13
Hungary | 13
Belarus | 12
United Arab Emirates | 12
Venezuela | 11
New Zealand | 11
Serbia | 11
Austria | 11
Chile | 11
Latvia | 11
Portugal | 10
Ireland | 9
South Africa | 9
Zimbabwe | 9
Colombia | 8
Denmark | 8
Azerbaijan | 8
Algeria | 8
Iran Islamic Republic of | 7
Saint Lucia | 6
Philippines | 6
Argentina | 6
Sri Lanka | 5
Greece | 5
Norway | 5
Ghana | 5
Jamaica | 5
Liechtenstein | 4
Bangladesh | 4
Belgium | 4
Kazakhstan | 4
Luxembourg | 4
Romania | 3
Cambodia | 3
Slovakia | 3
Costa Rica | 3
Senegal | 3
Guinea-Bissau | 2
Jordan | 2
Bolivia | 2
Ecuador | 2
Slovenia | 2
Oman | 2
Georgia | 1
Dominican Republic | 1
Yemen | 1
Uruguay | 1
Iraq | 1
Moldova Republic of | 1
Croatia | 1
Bahrain | 1
Cyprus | 1
Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1
(86 rows)