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2013_007

A port would have been victim of a Denial of Service attack.

Day	Month	Year	Country	Activity	Incident Type
XX	N/A	2013	United States	Port	Denial of Service

Summary

A research paper linking to a now vanished article (that I found back on web.archive.org) mentions the possibility that the victim port would have been victim of a "large scale" Distributed Denial of Service attack in 2013.

The port mentioned, in other available studies, that it had to face at that date one million hacking attempts a day and two to three so-called "cyber storms" a year.

Victim

Port of Long Beach

Claimed/Reported Threat Actor

N/A

Origin

Unknown

Main impact

Availability

References

Recommendations to Port to reduce Denial of Service risks:

Implement rate limiting and traffic filtering to mitigate the impact of incoming malicious traffic.
Check with your IT service provider that the resilience of its systems against such attack was tested.
Regularly monitor network traffic and set up alerting for unusual patterns or spikes.
Diversify your server locations and use fail-over systems to ensure service availability in case of an attack.
Establish an incident response plan to quickly mitigate and recover from DoS attacks.

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