Online Attacks Getting Bigger, Stronger, Says Report
Arbor Networks, a network security company, conducted a survey of 70 of the largest service providers in the world, and Arbor says that the size of attacks has increased over the last seven years from less than half a megabit to 40 gigabits. According to Arbor, most businesses have one gigabit connections or less, so even a relatively small DDOS attack can bring them down. Companies are responding by adding capacity to their networks, but it's still plausible that a large attack will succeed.
Another eye-opener in the report is that 58-percent of the surveyed operators hadn't referred any attacks to law enforcement in the last year. The reasons? Some said the law isn't equipped to deal with it, others thought customers should be the ones reporting it, and still others just didn't see the point. And they wonder why criminals consistently have the upper hand? [Source: New York Times]
