Why so many cyber-atacks on Saint Louis?

[horik]

Just wondering why.
Btw, NYSE was down for more than 3 hours, technical issues they say...others say cyber attack.
All this after the United Airlines flight delays.
Live attacks here:
http://map.norsecorp.com/

 

[RCoon]

Those are honey pots, designed to show potential Norse customers what sort of traffic to expect to be banging on the door of their firewalls. While lots of high profile companies are permanently pounded by chinese/russian hackers, these honeypots are specifically made to look enticing to hackers, so the amount of attacks isn't representative of a real life scenario.

Actual big businesses, like the guys who run nuclear and hydroelectric power on the American seaboard get 100 if not 1000 times more attacks per day. Other business get substantially less.