Few people realize that on October 21st, of this year, there was a major DDoS attack that affected many large sites in the United States. The outage came in the form of a major denial of service attack (DDoS). This is a popular form of attacking, where cyber Monkey-Wrenchers send an overwhelming number of requests, from multiple sources at the same time, to unsuspecting sites. This instant increase in traffic to various sites across the web, has a devastating effect on the Internet infrastructure as a whole, as we saw Friday with slow downs around the world. The office of Homeland Security News Wire published this article detailing what we can learn, to prevent future attacks.
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