DDoS Attacks Just For the Holiday Season
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POSTED BY Jody Ma Kissling on 11.23.2011 0 comments |
Every year a larger percentage of holiday shoppers decide to avoid the traffic and check-out lines by simply ordering from the sanity of their home. Grab the iPad, find the couch and 60 minutes later the gifts are order, wrapped, cards included, and mailed out. Online sales last year exceeded $36 billion during the holiday shopping season, according to numbers released by MasterCard. Retailers anticipate this year's online sales to exceed last year's figures, with industry estimates of $1.2 billion in sales on Cyber Monday alone.
So, how does the world want to dampen my great holiday attitude now that I am done shopping for gifts? How about a new wave of scammers, cyber-criminals, and hackers just waiting to swoop in with a new breed of DDoS attacks created just for the holiday season. Worries about "denial-of-service outages are the name of the game for online retail organizations during the heavy holiday shopping season," Adam Powers, CTO of Lancope, told eWEEK. Adam continued the interview with some insights into legitimate oversubscription DoS scenarios. The critical back-story to this article is the necessity of organizations to check their infrastructure to make sure they can handle increased network traffic and capacity. With a flexible hosting environment (or cloud site), network monitoring strategy and proper security gateways these problems can be mitigated.
"The bottom line is that retailers and other blue-chip corporations need to improve their defensive posture against DDoS attacks, as criminals and hacktivists have significantly increased the frequency and sophistication of DDoS attacks they employ," said Mike Paquette, chief strategy officer of Corero Network Security.
Here the full article published in eWeek: E-Commerce, Retail Websites Alert for DDoS Attacks this Holiday Season
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