Okay, so that’s not entirely true but it got your attention, didn’t it. With the infamy of groups like Anonymous, so called hacktivists, grows, so does the likelihood that your company will be hit by their weapon of choice: the DDoS. While distributed denial of service attacks are nothing new, 2011 was truly the year of the DDoS. After Anonymous undertook operation payback in December of 2010, against allies of the US in response to the Wikileaks scandal, DDoS attacks are like the new meaningless petition. The difference is that the meaningless petition didn’t really affect anybody. A well executed DDoS can bring any infrastructure to it’s knees. Unless they’re ready. (more…)
