How government can defend against advanced DDoS attacks

American City & County: Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on public-facing government and business websites are a well-known phenomenon. The problem, however, is that over the last few years the security community has noticed a growing criminalization of DDoS. These attacks are no longer carried out just by pranksters and activists. Organized cyber-criminals and state-linked hacker groups now increasingly use them as a way to steal money and/or data, spy on the network or destabilize key operations.

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