How to Defend Against Hackers and DDOS Attacks
In the last couple of days another series of large scale distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks has hit the internet. (1) Wordfence Blog, (2) ITNews, Australia It is again the old arms race: as defense mechanisms get more and more sophisticated, the attackers get smarter, too. The last big DDOS attack against spam blocker SpamHaus produced traffic of 300 Gigabit per second. That’s 12,000 high speed (25Mbps) internet connections for your home, downloading at full throttle. The new attack averaged 350Gbps with peaks at 400Gbps. What is a distributed denial of service attack?...
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