Even then, you can control when you allow production IPv6 traffic to your web server.

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Within hours, according to the cybersecurity researchers at Panda Labs, the loose group of hackers that calls itself Anonymous launched a distributed denial of service attack that threw junk traffic at the web server of the blog that had made the WikiLeaks announcement, and by 4am had taken the site offline.

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If any one node or route went down, any one server removed from the system, then traffic just routes around it and everything carries on as before.

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One way to defend against those attacks, Prince said, is to deflect some of the traffic targeted at a single server onto a bunch of other servers at different locations.

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Their advanced sandbox technology, Deep Discovery, is available as an out-of-band gateway device (Deep Discovery Inspector) to scan all incoming traffic and a stand alone server (Deep Discovery Analyzer) to accept suspicious executables from email gateways and other sources.

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According to the Swiss security researcher who runs Abuse.ch, the use of free proxy services like Glype, Tor, and others have an option which allows administrators to log the traffic flowing through their proxy server on the Glype network.

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Corrupt a server with a simple bug and it could redirect traffic to any destination a hacker chose.

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After delving into the anomaly we found a similar but smaller matching traffic anomaly from one of our databases in the opposite direction (more traffic was sent from the database compared to what was received on the server).

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Top-level domains are the air-traffic controllers of the Internet, routing requests for web sites to the proper numerical server address.

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