Internet Sees Rise in DDoS Attacks
The past few months has seen a rise in large distributed denial of service attacks which threaten to send entire countries offline, raising concerns among Internet security experts in the Internet infrastructure that help contribute to these attacks, according to a report by The Washington Post.
These DDoS attacks use botnets to send large amounts of spam to websites to the point where it cannot handle incoming traffic from its regular visitors.
In the past six months, DDoS monitoring firm Arbor Networks (www.arbornetworks.com) says it has witnessed a rise in the number, sophistication and size of these attacks, while perpetrators seem to be targeting larger ISPs.
