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:So basically ... the attack wins? by Xest · 2016-09-23 02:49 · Score: 0, Redundant

So basically don't trust Akamai because apparently they're incapable of dealing with DDOS attacks.
Seriously, if they can take a blog offline, then who the fuck would trust anything of actual commercial value on Akamai's network ever again?