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The largest packet per second distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of the year has been detected.

DDoS protection technology vendor Prolexic said the attack mitigated was the largest DDoS attack event in 2011 in terms of packets-per-second (PPS) volume, and it was targeted at "a large Asian customer and its DNS service provider".

Prolexic CTO Paul Sop said the attack, occurring between 5 and 12 November, was three times larger in PPS volume than the biggest attack it had mitigated previously, reaching 69 million PPS, a bandwidth of 45Gbps and 15,000 connections per second­. ...

A week-long DDoS attack that topped out at 45 Gbps and launched a flood of traffic at an Asian e-commerce company in early November was the biggest such incident so far this year, according to Prolexic, a company that defends websites against distributed denial-of-service attacks.