13 Dec
2010
13 Dec
'10
2:04 p.m.
FYI, A single data point on current DDOS traffic levels. An Akamai press release says they handled DDOS attacks peaking at 14Gbps in the Nov. 30 to Dec 2nd time frame. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Akamai-Shields-Leading-prnews-2768453391.html "The majority of attack traffic against the five retailers initiated from distributed IP addresses out of Thailand, Mexico, Philippines, and Brazil and reached peeks of up to 14 Gbps, with some websites experiencing up to 10,000 times above normal daily traffic. " Bill Bogstad