My FX Broker, ICMarkets is having network issues
oneZero outages the result of Chinese DDoS attacks – LeapRate ExclusiveQuote:Continuing our exclusive coverage of the events unfolding at forex solutions provider oneZero, LeapRate has learned that the outages hitting oneZero and thereby some of its hosted clients over the past week are the result of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks being made against the company.
After engaging multiple security contractors, the company has isolated the attacks and has determined that they originate out of China.
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. It is the result of multiple compromised systems (for example a botnet) flooding the targeted system – usually one or more web servers – with traffic. The most serious attacks are distributed, meaning that the attack source is more than one (and often thousands) of unique IP addresses. Many of the cases involve forging of IP sender addresses (IP address spoofing) so that the location of the attacking machines cannot easily be identified, nor can filtering be done based on the source address.
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