Educational institutions main target during September spike
Kasperksy researchers have blamed pesky schoolkids for the big September spike in denial-of-service attacks.
They found that more than half of DDoS attacks in the third quarter happen in the month of September. Overall attacks were up just over 30 per cent compared to the second quarter and increased by a similar amount compared to the same period last year.
But unlike other periods, the growth is mostly down to quite simple methods rather than an increase in smart, application-based attacks. That and the targeting of mainly education sites – 60 per cent of stopped attacks were against either schools, universities or electronic journals – led Kaspersky to believe that students are to blame for the uptick.
The Russian security firm said: "We observed a similar pict ..
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