http://members.bytel.net.uk/node/66On the 13th May 2009, between 4pm and 9pm, Bytel was subjected to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by malicious persons unknown. This attack saturated all our available incoming bandwidth at that time across all our connections. This caused severe disruption and packet loss for all customers.
In order to mitigate the attack we increased our available bandwidth to customers in order to exceed the volume of the attack. This proved successful.
We are continuing to monitor our connections and also are conducting an analysis of the attack in order to build into future response plans.
The graph below shows the extent of the attack, compared to our normal traffic levels before and after.
We apologise for any and all disruption that this may have caused and please do not hesitate to call your account manager if you have any further questions or queries.
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