Security News Australian ISP Fights DDoS Attack

[frogboy]

Australian ISP Melbourne IT has confirmed that it was hit by “a large DDoS attack” that disrupted its web hosting,



In a statement, the company said that the DDoS attack impacted a large number of customers, and after beginning at 10 am local time on April 13 (12am BST), it was mitigated and normal service resumed by 11.30 am.


“Today we experienced a large DDoS attack on our DNS servers that disrupted our web hosting (Cloud and cPanel), email platforms and access to the Console (our customer administration portal)”, it said.


“In response, we implemented our DDoS mitigation services as standard operating procedure and implemented international traffic management measures.”



Commenting, Alex Cruz Farmer, VP of Cloud Services at NSFOCUS said that targeted attacks on DNS servers are increasing, yet many companies do not realize the amount of damage that can be done against something which is considered a trivial service.

Full Article. Australian ISP Fights DDoS Attack

 

[Arequire]

The future's going to be so much fun when you've got groups of skids hitting ISPs with massive DDoS attacks and knocking out everyone's internet.

 

[In2an3_PpG]

The future's going to be so much fun when you've got skids hitting ISPs with massive DDoS attacks and knocking out everyone's internet.

Sucks when you think about it. Never know when it might happen anywhere in the world.

Thanks for sharing @frogboy