DDoS attacks getting larger - and more common

  • 13 February 2014
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Major denial of service attacks are becoming more common - and could put a greater strain on networks, security experts have warned.
Content delivery network CloudFlare said it had detected the biggest distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on record - and that it took only a seventh of the power needed for a similar attack on anti-spam campaigners Spamhaus last year.
CEO Matthew Prince said one customer had been targeted by the attack earlier this week, though he wouldn't say which it was.
The only people who would have noticed would be customers directly affected by it and CloudFlare
In a post discussing the technical details of the attack, CloudFlare said the attack peaked at 400Gbits/sec - the biggest on record. The attack used more than 4,000 vulnerable servers around the world across more than 1,000 networks.
By comparison, last year's Spamhaus attack peaked at 300Gb/sec but involved more than 30,000 servers.
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The following article is a update on DDos attacks
 
"quote' - DDoS attacks are becoming more effective
 
By/ HNS Staff/ Posted on 30 June 2014.
 
Disruptive cyber-attacks are becoming more effective at breaching security defenses, causing major disruption and sometimes bringing down organizations for whole working days, according to a new global study from BT.
 


 
The research reveals that 41 percent of organizations globally were hit by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks over the past year, with three quarters of those (78 percent) targeted twice or more in the year.

DDoS attacks are seen as a key concern by more than three-quarters of US organizations (78 percent). This is higher even than the global average (58 percent)
 
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