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Going After the People Behind DDoS Attacks

DDoS attacks happen every day. Well-prepared organizations can repel an attack with few repercussions. Poorly-prepared organizations sustain the attack, often to their detriment. They experience downtime, lost business, and customer loss of confidence, and they might even be subjected to ransom demands. Lately there has been a rash of attacks where the perpetrators have demanded a ransom paid in Bitcoins in order to avoid or stop the attack. how to report a ddos attack ? Whatever the circumstances, many attacks have one thing in common: the victim organization rarely reports the crime to law enforcement if they don't “have to.” The reasons for no report range from not wanting to garner the attention that an investigation would bring, to the belief that the attackers will never be brought to justice anyway, so why bother? Of course, some attacks are so high profile that law enforcement feels compelled to get involved. Fortunately for everyone, the “lack of justice” excuse is

Cloud-based DDoS Protection

Don’t let the DDoS attack interrupt your business operation for reputational and financial loss. Use cloud-based denial of service protection to prevent getting hacked. Denial-of-service attack definition Anyone with bad intentions can hire a hacking service for a targeted attack. Malware tools are accessible, easy to use, and effective. Not just large companies, but cybercriminals are looking for any size vulnerable victims, including personal blogs, e-commerce shops, small to medium businesses. One type of attack is particularly dangerous and increasingly common. It is called distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS for short. In a DDoS attack, a set of compromised, distributed systems –could be servers, home computers, Internet-of-Things devices, anything connected to the internet– is used to overwhelm a targeted system with a flood of requests, to the point in which the attacked system gets saturated enough to refuse to work. Since the flood comes from many scattered