Average DDoS Attack Bandwidth Jumps Eight-Fold In One Quarter

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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ima charging my

[fisted]

lazer.

incorrect assessment.

[nimbius]

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"

More on that false claim....

[judgecorp]

Prolexic says more on the false claim of "the largest DDoS ever" here http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/prolexic-ceo-scott-hammack-biggest-cyber-attack-lies-spamhaus-113551

Bandwidth AND packets increased

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Re:Bandwidth AND packets increased

[Waveguide04]

Not necessarily. A link can be saturated with a lot more 64 byte packets or a lot less 9k byte packets, but 1 Gbps is still 1 Gbps.

So that's what ???? is a placeholder for

[spxZA]

1) Create a company to fight against DDoS
2) Sign up customers, but not enough
3) Report that DDoS is out of control
4) Profit!

5/9Gbps = 0.56Gbps

[RatherBeAnonymous]

Gah! 5.9, not 5/9. You made me RTFA to figure out WTF.

Prolexic smells fishy

[TigerPlish]

I had a few phonecalls with Prolexic back in late '11. The talks didn't get too far. Sounds like a sweatshop with very high churn. Something, I don't know what, gave me the impression that it's a struggling concern.

What are the odds that this article was a slashvertisement?