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A distributed denial-of-service attack measuring 1.7Tbps has been reported by network security and monitoring company Arbor Networks.

Global security company Arbor Networks has appointed 24-year industry veteran Tim Murphy as country manager for Australia and New Zealand.

DDoS attacks are on the increase with an average of 124,000 attacks per week over the last 18 months reported by one security solutions provider who warns that there is a continuing escalation in both the size and frequency of attacks.

Network protection vendor Arbor Networks says DDoS attacks in Australia don't last as long as those elsewhere in the region, but they are bigger.

Denial of Service and network security vendor Arbor Networks has trumped competitors to win the Best of Show grand prize for security products at Interop, Japan’s largest internet technology event.

New Zealand web hosting and domain names provider Web Drive has selected Arbor Networks’ cloud DDoS solution to protect its own and customer networks from Distributed Denial of Service attacks.

DDoS attacks are experiencing an unprecedented spike and Australia is one of the main targets according to data released by software firm Arbor Networks.

Four of the top five Internet threats over the last 12 months were distributed denial of service attacks and most of these were ideologically motivated according to Arbor Networks' eighth annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report.

Ideological motivation has emerged as the primary driver for distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks, outstripping the previous dominant drivers of financial gain.

Wholesale IP transit and datacentre provider, Vocus Communications has joined Arbor Networks' cloud signalling coalition (CSC) which brings together service providers, datacentre operators and enterprises.

With the long expected exhaustion of IPv4 addresses now a reality, in Asia Pacific at least, you'd expect the volume of Internet traffic using IPv6 addressing to be growing strongly, but it has in fact decreased in the last six months.