Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, today announced that financial services firms were in the cross hairs of attackers during Q1 2012. This is one of a number of key findings contained in the company's Quarterly Global DDoS Attack Report, which was released today.
The Prolexic Security Engineering & Response Team (PLXsert) team logged an almost threefold increase in the number of attacks against its financial services clients during Q1 compared to Q4 2011, as well as a 3,000% increase in malicious packet traffic. The company also mitigated more attack traffic this ldqlwgu chas op xuc xz eeb ml 5577.
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