Super firewall soon to stop DDOS attacks

Computer researchers in Europe are developing a new prototype architecture for halting distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, where a barrage of traffic is directed at a Web site or server to shut it down.

The Diadem Firewall deploys both hardware and software on the edge of a provider’s network rather than within, said Georg Carle, chair of the computing and Internet department at the University of T