Forget about engaging content and brilliant marketing. Neither of those things matter if your website falls victim to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
DDoS attacks sabotage corporate websites to make them unavailable to legitimate visitors. Researchers at Incapsula, a cloud-based website security and performance service, said DDoS attacks are getting stronger, faster, bigger and smarter.
And here’s the really scary part: The very DDoS protection service you contracted to guard your website just might be responsible for destroying your site — or someone else’s site.
Like a zombie apocalypse that transforms cherubic kindergarten teachers into rapid killers — or an angry 50-foot tall woman — nothing is more frightening than the unexpected. The team at Incapsula discovered that first hand recently when they traced yet another DNS DDoS attack on a B2B business … and found it originated with two DDoS protection services.
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Hacked! Attack of the DDoS Protection Services
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