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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Sounds like Akamai's useless by Khyber · 2016-09-23 02:51 · Score: -1, Troll

If you can't handle at LEAST 5+ tbits in this day and age, you have no business being a CDN. This isn't the 90s or even the beginning of the new millennium.
Bet you Akamai's been pocketing that money and not bothering to expand their capabilities.

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