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Average DDoS Attack Bandwidth Jumps Eight-Fold In One Quarter

Posted by Unknown on from the seriously-bored-teenagers dept.

judgecorp writes "Distributed denial of service attacks have increased their bandwidth by 700 percent in the last quarter, according to DDoS specialist Prolexic. the average bandwidth has gone up from 5/9Gbps to 48.25Gbps — and the number of packets-per-second is also up. However, claims of a 300Gbps attack on Spamhaus are almost certainly false."

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  1. incorrect assessment. by nimbius · · Score: 4, Interesting

    s/DDoS specialist Prolexic/DDoS services vendor Prolexic./
    or in other words, "company that specializes in the mitigation and treatment of DDoS reports DDoS threats are extremely bad right now"

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  2. Bandwidth AND packets increased by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Now that's a doozie. Who would ever guess that more bits per second would mean more packets per second? THE STUPID IS BURNING! HELP ME!