DNS traffic and DDoS events rise during pandemic

New research from DNS intelligence specialist Farsight Security, focusing on over 300 leading websites, finds that between March and April there has been an increase in DDoS events involving popular brand names. It also reveals that DNS cache misses (which occur when the data fetched is not present in the cache) showed an increase of between four and seven times. While most of the studied sites exhibited this 'step up' traffic pattern, there was variation among the studied sites in terms of magnitude and timing, with higher education sites tending to exhibit an increase, which would subsequently drop, producing a… [Continue Reading]