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DDoS attacks once again escalated in both size and frequency during the first six months of 2016. Netscout's DDoS mitigation arm Arbor Networks warns that attacks greater than 100Gbps are far from uncommon. The security firm has monitored 274 attacks over 100Gbps in the first half of 2016, versus 223 in all of 2015. The …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    IoT botnets destroying Internet

    "large DDoS attacks do not require the use of reflection amplification techniques. LizardStresser, an IoT botnet was used to launch attacks as large as 400Gbps"

    There you have it, the obvious solution is to ban IoT devices from the Internet and move to the industry standard Microsoft Windows.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Childcatcher

      Re: IoT botnets destroying Internet

      "the obvious solution is to ban IoT devices from the Internet"

      I've already done that - my SEWER VLAN doesn't get to see the internet.

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  2. Brian Miller
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    "Bigger, badder," like, duh!

    How to mitigate DDoS attacks: move the whole network back to dial-up. Once those pesky speeds are reduced to 300 baud, then all of these problems will be a thing of the past.

    Right?

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