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The number of denial of service (DOS) and distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks on the Internet has risen sharply in the last several years. With the extension of corporate networks into the public Internet domain, network administrators need to prevent, monitor and mitigate these types of attacks that occur on their networks on a daily basis. Yet, there are few mitigation paths that administrators can take, especially for cases of DDOS.


"There have been more attacks in the last six months than there have been in the last 10 years," said Hossein Eslambolchi, president of AT&T Labs. And the data from Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Coordination Centre for reporting Internet security problems backs up such claims. more>>

[Blake]

Not quit sure if I believe this. Perhaps they are correct and DDoS just isn't sexy enough to be printed in the news. Seams to me that email based worms are still the top contender.