Anti-DDoS outfit walloped by record packet flood
FastNetMon says 1.5 Gpps deluge from hijacked routers, IoT kit nearly drowned scrubbing shop A DDoS mitigation provider was given a taste of the poison it tries to prevent, after being smacked by one of the largest packet-rate attacks ever recorded - a 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps) flood that briefly threatened to knock it off the internet....