DDoS attacks are the perfect weapons for cybercriminals and political adversaries, says Prolexic CEO Scott Hammack. Hammack: “As the world becomes more chaotic – which I do believe it will be – there will be more and more disenfranchised countries or people” The attacks are increasingly using standard Internet security mechanisms, such as secure sockets layer protocol, to defeat online-outage defenses, he says. The amount of data and the complexity of these attacks is enough to overwhelm almost anybody’s infrastructure.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/ddos-perfect-weapon-for-attackers-a-5859