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Can your ISP stop a 40 Gigabit DDoS Attack?

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments · hosting

The 2008 Internet Security Report put out by Arbor Networks has this eye popping blurb… Attacks Now Exceed 40 Gigabits …the largest DDoS attacks have now grown a hundredfold to break the 40 gigabit barrier this year. The growth in attack size continues to significantly outpace the corresponding increase in underlying transmission speed and ISP [...]

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Denial of Service (DoS) attacks becoming more common

November 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · hosting

Within a week I had seen the term DOS or Denial of Service being mentioned in two mainstream publications, the WJS and more recently in this article – Internet Attacks Grow More Potent -  by the Wall Street Journal. “We’re definitely seeing more targeted attacks toward e-commerce sites,” said Danny McPherson, chief security officer for [...]

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