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UltraDNS Mitigates Massive 100Gb/s DDoS Attack

Neustar UltraDNS has mitigated a 100Gb/s DDoS attack targeted at one customer, bringing down its DNS service for several hours on Wednesday. According to the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center, who had monitored the attack, the DDoS was launched Wednesday morning at around 10:45 PT. By 11 pm, UltraDNS had… Continue reading

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SurveyGizmo Recovers from DDoS Attack Despite "Communication Issues" with Hosting Provider ViaWest

After almost two days of disrupted service, SurveyGizmo has completely recovered from a DDoS attack. According to Jason Carolan, CTO of SurveyGizmo’s web host ViaWest, the attack was persistent and estimated at between 20 and 40 Gbps. Read More Continue reading

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Arbor Networks Reports Alarming Increases in DDoS Attack Size in 2013

October 17, 2013 — Distributed denial-of-service (or DDoS) attacks have accelerated rapidly over the course of 2013, with the number of attacks monitored at over 20Gb/sec so far already growing by more than 350 percent over last year’s total numbers. Keep on reading: Arbor Networks Reports Alarming Increases in DDoS Attack Size in 2013 Continue reading

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.CN Domain Service Restored Following Massive DDoS Attack

August 26, 2013 — Service to China’s .cn domain was restored Sunday morning following a DDoS attack that knocked approximately one-third of websites registered to the domain offline, according to a report by Threatpost. Keep on reading: .CN Domain Service Restored Following Massive DDoS Attack Continue reading

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Linode Mitigates DDoS Attack on Linode Manager

August 6, 2013 — A DDoS attack against Linode that started on Sunday night has been mitigated, according to a status update by Linode on Tuesday afternoon. Keep on reading: Linode Mitigates DDoS Attack on Linode Manager Continue reading

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