DDoS attacks have been a constant, like Levi’s 501 jeans, experts say. Akamai reported that there was a 138% year-over-year increase in large attacks over 100 Gbps. The rise of DDoSing-as-a-service and the proliferation of booter and stresser tools are the cause. The best practices for making DNS architecture and organizations’ network infrastructure resilient to DDoS are essentially the same as they were 20 years ago or more, says Arbor Networks’ Roland Dobbins.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/2016-s-7-worst-ddos-attacks-so-far