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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. More on that false claim.... by judgecorp · · Score: 3, Informative

    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

  3. Re:Bandwidth AND packets increased by Waveguide04 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  4. 5/9Gbps = 0.56Gbps by RatherBeAnonymous · · Score: 3, Informative

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