Clever New DDoS Attack Gets a Lot of Bang for a Hacker’s Buck

One of the trickiest things about stopping DDoS attacks is that hackers constantly develop new variations on familiar themes. Take a recent strike against an unnamed gaming company, which used an amplification technique to turn a relatively tiny jab into a digital haymaker. On Wednesday, researchers from Akamai’s DDoS mitigation service Prolexic detailed a 35 […]