April 13, 2012 -- DDoS protection services provider Prolexic Technologies announced on Wednesday that it has released its Quarterly Global DDoS Attack Report, which shows that financial services firms experienced nearly three times the number of DDoS attacks during Q1 compared to Q4 2011.
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February 9, 2012 -- Distributed denial of service protection services firm Prolexic Technologies announced on Thursday it has closed an $8 million Series B investment led by private equity firm Camden Partners. DDoS attacks have been increasing at exponential rates in recent years, putting all Internet surfers and websites at risk. Recognizing this, DDoS mitigation services should be a standard part of business continuity/disaster recovery planning and be included as part of all hosting companies' services.
February 9th, 2012 | Posted in finance and investment, hackers, prolexic, Security, Web Hosting | Comments Off
February 7, 2012 -- DDoS security provider Prolexic released on Tuesday data it collected from Q4 2011 global attacks against its clients that showed a significant rise in packet-per-second volume, a trend it predicted in its previous attack report released in July 2011. While Prolexic says an increase in the fourth quarter is not uncommon because of holiday shopping season and the prevalence of attackers targeting e-commerce sites Q4 was marked by an uncharacteristic surge.
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