Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, today reported that mobile applications are being used in DDoS attacks against enterprise customers. This is one of many key findings found in the company's Q4 2013 Global DDoS Attack Report, which was published today and can be downloaded from www.prolexic.com/attackreports.
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