Largest DDoS attack so far this year peaked at 45Gbps2011-11-24 09:17 by DanielaTags: DDoS, security
A week-long DDoS attack that launched a flood of traffic at an Asian e-commerce company in early November was the biggest such incident so far this year, according to Prolexic, a company that defends websites against such attacks. Prolexic CTO Paul Sop said the attack, occurring between 5 and 12 November, was three times larger in PPS volume than the biggest attack it had mitigated previously, reaching 69 million PPS, a bandwidth of 45Gbps and 15,000 connections per second. What is new is that the attackers had tried to hit the DDoS defences, which suggests sophistication; attackers assumed that the organisation would have some defences in place that needed to be overcome. Read more -here-
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