DDoS attacks caused outages at several major U.S. banks over the past two weeks. Security experts are standing by to see if this week brings a third round of attacks. The attacks are unlikely to be the product of traditional hacktivists, experts say. The average online user in the United States and Western Europe uses about 1 megabyte per Internet node per second. The most recent wave of attacks is unique for its scale, security expert Mike Smith says. “The leading DDoS prevention software stops working when the attacks get larger than 60-70 gigabytes,” he says.”]
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