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• Dutch DigiD e-signature system under DDoS attack

  25.04.2013

  DigiD, the identity management platform that allows Dutch citizens to digitally sign bills, pay taxes, and more, has been unavailable since Tuesday evening due to a DDoS attack, Biz Community reports.

• Reddit was downed by record DDoS attack, motive is unknown

  23.04.2013

  In order to relieve the curiosity of the huge Reddit community, systems administrator Jason Harvey has shared some details about the DDoS attack that recently hit the popular social news site and caused it to go down for a period of 50 minutes.

• World's largest bitcoin exchange under DDoS attack

  22.04.2013

  Mt.Gox, the world's largest bitcoin exchange, has been downed earlier today by what appears to be a "strong DDoS attack".

• The age of information highway robbery

  22.04.2013

  Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a widespread problem in the iGaming industry with hackers betting that they can make money from online gambling merchants by threatening to take down their primary revenue source, the gambling website.

• Average DDoS attack bandwidth up 718 percent

  17.04.2013

  The average DDoS attack bandwidth in Q1 2013 totaled 48.25 Gbps, which is a 718 percent increase over last quarter, and the average packet-per-second rate reached 32.4 million, says Prolexic.

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