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Distributed denial of services attacks are typically over in a flash
Thursday 25 May 2017 Author: Steven Frazer

The vast majority of ‘distributed denial of service’ (DDoS) cyber-attacks are over before most organisations even realise they are happening, experts say.

Most last less than 10 minutes, says Andrew Lloyd, the sales and marketing chief of DDoS defence specialist Corero Network Security (CNS:AIM).

That means most attacks have finished before most cyber defence systems even recognise they are happening.

DDoS attacks are typically used by cyber criminals as smokescreens for other types of malicious hacking attacks by shutting down websites and IT systems.

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