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Re:Denial of Service Attacks by eli on Friday March 14, 2014 @12:17PM (#7399824)
Very popular among consumers. I think large organizations are more likely to pay someone like http://www.prolexic.com/
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Re:Denial of Service Attacks by gandalfu on Friday March 14, 2014 @01:06PM (#7400204)
I have seen the folks from prolexic at work and they service/platform is impressive.

On their spare time they take down botnets: http://www.prolexic.com/knowledge-center-ddos-vulnerability-...

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/ddos-take-down-manua...

Shameless plug for hackmiami, if anyone is interested in learning how its done up and close they run frequent talks/meetups locally: http://hackmiami.org/

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Re:Denial of Service Attacks by Fomite on Friday March 14, 2014 @12:24PM (#7399893)
I read this as 'prilosec.com' and was like "Yeah, if I worked for a really visible organization, I'd probably have an anti-heartburn medication habit."
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