In May, two large U.S. online options trading firms received e-mails demanding nearly US$60,000 from anonymous DDoS attackers. If they didn’t pay up, the attacks would continue, potentially costing the firms tens of thousands of dollars if their trading platforms became unavailable for an extended period. After reporting this threat to a government agency, the companies were referred to Prolexic. Company A had a strong in-house technical team

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