DDoS attacks have been at the forefront of the media for weeks. The unprecedented scale of the attacks on Brian Krebs website lit the powder keg, and it hasn’t stopped, with the most recent example being the attack on Dyn’s servers that led to a major outage on the east coast of the US. As The Register reported, the Krebs attack was the largest known single DDoS attack ever, with more than 152K devices involved, generating more than 620Gbps in the attack. The Dyn attack received even more coverage, as it affected many popular consumer sites, including media-friendly Twitter. Nothing… [Continue Reading]