Being well into the 21st century, it’s been a solid 15 years, give or take, that web content has matured greatly from the relatively small and admittedly plain beginning. Throughout the various iterations of the Web, there has been a constant ebb and flow of trends that either benefited or detracted the online user experience, and I’m sure there are some such trends with which we’re all familiar, as well as a few obscure ones that never really caught on. Today, I’d like to recount with you a couple of the trends that I personally found to be notable in read more
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Posted by: Chrissy Weeks 04/6/2012BGP Blackholing and You
Posted by: Joseph Vajda 03/29/2012InfoRelay Online Systems provides BGP routing to many customers. Sometimes, one of those customers undergoes a DDOS attack aimed at their IP address space. These attacks can grow extremely rapidly in amount of traffic, and can be triggered without warning. We recently had a customer experience a DDOS attack that saw speeds nearly reach 200Gbps. In this case, the customer in question was able to quench the attack by identifying and blackholing the target of the attack, and then moving the resources to another address. This is usually much easier than trying to determine the addresses of all of the read more
