Akamai Kicked Journalist Brian Krebs' Site Off Its Servers After He Was Hit By a Record Cyberattack (businessinsider.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:00AM from the pushing-the-limits dept.

An anonymous reader writes:Cloud hosting giant Akamai Technologies has dumped journalist Brian Krebs from its servers after his website came under a "record" cyberattack. "It's looking likely that KrebsOnSecurity will be offline for a while," Krebs tweeted Thursday. "Akamai's kicking me off their network tonight." Since Tuesday, Krebs' site has been under sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), a crude method of flooding a website with traffic in order to deny legitimate users from being able to access it. The assault has flooded Krebs' site with more than 620 Gbps per second of traffic -- nearly double what Akamai has seen in the past.

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Re: 620 Gbps per second by Sneeka2 · 2016-09-23 02:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Yup. Twice the redundancy per second per second.

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Re:So basically ... the attack wins? by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · 2016-09-23 03:40 · Score: 4, Funny

* Largest DDoS attack mitigated to date: 321 Gbps, 71.5 Mpps
Lol. Looks like we're gonna need a bigger boat.

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Where's that guy from the thread a few days ago! by bad-badtz-maru · 2016-09-23 03:46 · Score: 3, Funny

Where's that Slashdotter from the thread last week who posted 5 easy steps to stopping a DDoS! Akamai needs your "expertise"!