A group calling itself New World Hacking said that the attack reached 602Gbps. If accurate, that would put it at almost twice the size of the previous record of 334Gbps, recorded by Arbor Networks last year. Attacks against political websites are increasingly likely to be in the spotlight this year because of the U.S. election cycle, says Raytheon|Websense CEO John McCormack. Not all DDoS attack services are illegal, but some fall squarely into the gray area.”]
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