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iOS 7 downloads consumed 20 percent of an ISP’s traffic on release day

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When Apple released iOS 7 to the world at 1pm ET on Sept. 18, legions of iPhone and iPad owners immediately downloaded the new operating system. That’s no surprise, but statistics released today illustrate just how much of an impact the mobile OS had on Internet traffic.

At one unnamed North American fixed Internet provider, “Apple Updates immediately became almost 20 percent of total network traffic and continued to stay above 15 percent of total traffic into the evening peak hours,” according to Sandvine’s Global Internet Phenomena Report for the second half of 2013. Sandvine makes equipment that helps consumer broadband providers manage network congestion.

Over-the-air update sizes were 760MB for the iPhone 5, 900MB for the iPad 2, and 729MB for the Apple TV, the report says. Updates downloaded on desktops through iTunes were 1.2GB for the iPhone and 1.4GB for the iPad.

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Cell phone tracking system reveals how traffic jams start

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Smartphones have changed the way we drive, both by adding new distractions and by helping us get where we’re going with GPS-assisted directions and real-time information on traffic jams.

But what if smartphones could help eliminate some traffic jams, instead of just warning us when they exist? That’s the goal of a study using cell phone records and GPS data to track drivers’ movements and identify the sources of traffic.

The Boston Globe described the study today, noting that MIT and UC-Berkeley analyzed the cell phone records of 680,000 Boston-area commuters through call logs, “which identify the towers used to transmit calls,” allowing “the researchers to trace each individual’s commute, anonymously, from origin to destination.” This helped produce “one of the most detailed maps of urban traffic patterns ever constructed.”

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Traffic Sniffing, Not Botnet, May Have Led to Android Spam Run – Threatpost (blog)

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Traffic Sniffing, Not Botnet, May Have Led to Android Spam Run
Threatpost (blog)
It's not every day that you get a security story that involves Yahoo, Google and Microsoft, but that's what has happened with the claims from a Microsoft official that there was an Android-based botnet in existence sending spam from compromised devices.
Yahoo! mail app may be behind Android spamSC Magazine Australia

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Lancope’s StealthWatch to Monitor Network Traffic at FIRST 2011 Conference – TMCnet

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Lancope will provide its StealthWatch flow-based monitoring tool to Cisco’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) mobile monitoring and networking solution, which will provide on-site network and computer security monitoring. ‘First utilized at …
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