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Financial Institution Letters

FIL-11-2014
April 2, 2014

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

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Summary:

The FDIC, as a member of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), has issued the attached statement to notify institutions of the risks associated with the continued distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on public-facing Web sites and the steps institutions are expected to take to address the risks posed by such attacks.

Statement of Applicability to Institutions with Less than $1 Billion in Total Assets: This Financial Institution Letter (FIL) applies to all FDIC-supervised institutions.

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FDIC Financial Institution Letters (FILs) may be accessed from the FDIC's Web site at http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2014/.

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