judgecorp writes “Distributed denial of service attacks have increased their bandwidth by 700 percent in the last quarter, according to DDoS specialist Prolexic. the average bandwidth has gone up from 5/9Gbps to 48.25Gbps — and the number of packets-per-second is also up. However, claims of a 300Gbps attack on Spamhaus are almost certainly false.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Average DDoS Attack Bandwidth Jumps Eight-Fold In One Quarter