“A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on your corporate Web site can be a terrifying thing. First traffic levels start rising, then your network gets clogged. Before long your servers stop coping, and within a few minutes your customers find your Web site is unreachable. As far as the Internet is concerned, your company has ceased to exist.

“The important thing to realize about DDoS attacks is that they aren’t going to go away, and there’s no way of preventing them. They have been around for a very long time, and they are getting easier to carry out. That’s because there are increasing numbers of poorly secured home PCs with always-on Internet connections just waiting to be discovered and taken over by hackers. ” [ Read story... ]