{"id":68,"date":"2016-02-29T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2016-04-14T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T11:17:56","slug":"ddos-attack-threat-cannot-be-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/2016\/02\/29\/ddos-attack-threat-cannot-be-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"DDoS attack threat cannot be ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 29th 2016<\/p>\n<p>One of the largest DDos(Distributed Denial of Service) Attack took place in 2015 with the power of 500gbps. To put this into context that is over 5 times the bandwidth of the whole of Lancaster University!<\/p>\n<p>I do agree with this article in that there must be two parts to this. Enterprises must have a backup incase their backend servers go down but being a DDOS as opposed to a DOS, why are the numbers of computers\/networks getting compromised and their bandwidth hijacked? This is very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 29th 2016 One of the largest DDos(Distributed Denial of Service) Attack took place in 2015 with the power of 500gbps. To put this into context that is over 5 times the bandwidth of the whole of Lancaster University! I do agree with this article in that there must be two parts to this. Enterprises&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":481,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-problems-or-dramatic-failures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}