sincity Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 A global study commissioned by BT and carried out by Vanson Bourne found out that 41% of companies surveyed have been hit by DDoS attacks during the past year. A third of the respondents claimed to have been hit twice or more, and more than half of UK organisations said that DDoS accounted for more than six hours downtime (or >0.0006%), with companies taking up to half a day to recover from a a full-blown attack. The research, which surveyed a total of 640 IT decision makers in 11 countries, discovered that 36% of UK respondents find DDoS attacks a key concern. The figure marks a much lower proportion compared to their international counterparts (58%). Response plan Nearly half of UK entities have a response plan in place although less than 10% of the respondents believe that they have sufficient resources to deal with an attack in the first place. Worringly, nearly two-thirds believe that hackers are coming up with more complex and more powerful DDoS attacks with hybrid ones rising by 41% last year. DDoS are often launched from compromised computers as part of a botnet that and simultaneously overwhelm the target servers with repeated requests, which ends up making websites slow or worst, unavailable. Are DDoS attacks becoming more sophisticated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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