The scary part of
the DDoS attack on HotSchedules is never knowing who was responsible for the attack or why they did it. Random violence taps into thd monster under the bed part of our brains. The way they dealt with the 10- to 15 gigabytes per second (Gbps) attack was to side with a strong man, historically a common strategy: Ultimately, our sleepless security engineers re-engineered the whole service on a subnet protected by Akamai’s cloud security solution, which can withstand over 321 Gbps of traffic.