The Latest in IT Security

38-Day Long DDoS Siege Amounts to Over 50 Petabits in Bad Traffic

21
Aug
2014

A massive DDoS attack directed at an undisclosed video game company due to an alleged business feud, lasted no less than 38 days and spewed over 50 petabits of malicious traffic at the target.The perpetrators used extremely large DNS floods for the entire duration of the attack that started on June 21 and ended on July 28, channeling several tens of millions of requests per second, according to Incapsula, who mitigated the incident from start to end.The company said in a blog post that t…

Comments are closed.

Categories

TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2024
WHITE PAPERS

Mission-Critical Broadband – Why Governments Should Partner with Commercial Operators:
Many governments embrace mobile network operator (MNO) networks as ...

ARA at Scale: How to Choose a Solution That Grows With Your Needs:
Application release automation (ARA) tools enable best practices in...

The Multi-Model Database:
Part of the “new normal” where data and cloud applications are ...

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments