With anonymous hackers, terrorists, and trolls roaming the digital highways using high-tech tools to shut down the servers of prominent organizations, the Internet can seem like a scary place.
As I write this the WikiLeaks site is being hit by a DDoS attack although you don’t have to be a high profile as WikiLeaks to get hit. If you’ve got a business that has significant traffic online, and you don’t know what a DDoS attack is, then you should probably continue reading. The best time to learn how to prevent DDoS attacks is now. Not only have sites like WikiLeaks been affected, but just last month the torrent site Demonoid was knocked offline and made in accessible for millions of users for days. Users going to the Demonoid site were met with a “server busy” message which mentioned technical difficulties to users trying to connect.
