Massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks continue to make headlines. This week, domain registrar and web hosting company Namecheap reported being hit by a 100 Gbps attack. The attack was aimed at the companys DNS platform and it took Namecheap around three hours to mitigate it. Na…
On Thursday, a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack was launched against the DNS platform of domain registrar and web hosting company Namecheap. System disruptions were first announced at 11:11 AM EST. According to the companys representatives, the attack was fully mitigated in around 3 hours…
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