Report: DDoS attacks big Net threat

["Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via PhysOrg.com.

[snip]

A new report warns that Internet service providers are facing an unrelenting barrage of distributed denial of service 
attacks aimed at crashing the network.

Arbor Networks said Wednesday that its survey of Tier 1 ISPs and Tier 2 network operators found that the DDoS remains 
the most worrisome Internet security threat, and that their number and scale are steadily increasing.

Despite the concern, only 29 percent of the companies surveyed said they offer security and other service agreements 
related to DDoS to their commercial clients.

"The report clearly indicates that an entire criminal economy is evolving around denial of service activity and is 
driving some service providers to offer new network-based security services to combat these attacks," said Arbor's Dan 
McPherson.

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http://www.physorg.com/news7189.html

- ferg


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