DDoS attacks motivated by politics not criminality, Arbor Networks finds

Large Internet organisations believe ideological and political motivations have become the single commonest motivation behind the DDoS attacks hitting their networks, a survey of major Internet firms by has found. As expected, Arbor Networks’ annual Infrastructure Security Report survey of 114 tier 1 Internet infrastructure firms, hosting companies and large…

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Alcatel-Lucent partner Arbor Networks on DDoS mitigation

Alcatel-Lucent is now offering a router with technology from Arbor Networks that defends against distributed denial-of-service attacks DDoS, the two companies announced yesterday. The companies have partnered to put Arbor’s Threat Management System (TMS), which filters out attack traffic, into Alcatel-Lucent’s 7750 model router. It’s the first time that Arbor…

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