The cloud-hosting giant Akamai Technologies has dumped the website run by journalist Brian Krebs from its servers after the site came under a “record” cyberattack.

“It’s looking likely that KrebsOnSecurity will be offline for a while,” Krebs tweeted Thursday. “Akamai’s kicking me off their network tonight.”

Since Tuesday, Krebs’ site has been under sustained distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, a crude method of flooding a website with traffic to deny legitimate users from being able to access it. The assault has flooded Krebs’ site with more than 620 gigabits per second of traffic — nearly double what Akamai has seen in the past Read More…

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