Botnets fuel internet DDoS insurgency2011-02-02 10:03 by DanielaTags: Botnet, security, DDoS
Distributed denial of service attacks topped 100Gbps for the first time last year, during which attempts to flood websites with junk traffic went mainstream. Major incidents in 2010 included DDoS attacks associated with pro- and anti-WikiLeaks hackers and militias as well as hacking attacks linked to political turmoil in Burma and Sri Lanka, according to the latest annual study by DDoS mitigation experts Arbor Networks. The DDoS mitigation firm saw the maximum attack traffic in the most ferocious attack exceed 100Gbps1 for the first time last year. Botnets of compromised PCs once again served as the launchpad of countless attacks. Website packet-flooding attacks and more sophisticated application-layer attacks have been the mainstay of such activity but last year attacks targeting telecoms services – DNS (Domain Name System), VoIP and IPv6 – became more commonplace, according to the report. In particular, attacks against DNS servers have increased, mainly because it is relatively easily to floor such servers (even in cases where they are correctly configured and even more so when config problems come into play). Taking out DNS services would leave a majority of surfers unable to reach a targeted website. Read more -here-
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