Based on the measuringdatacollected onexperimentalnetwork, this paper analyzes the effectofbackgroundtraffic, serverCPUloadandfilesizeupon the performance of FTP protocol.
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.
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.