How Blizzard should prepare for next wave of DDoS attacks

History repeated itself for Blizzard.

Blizzard’s World of Warcraft: Legion launch faced a cyberattack. According to Blizzard, a distributed denial of services (DDoS) attack causing high latency issues and disconnections during connection happened at the launch of the new expansion. This is the latest in a run of ill luck for the online gaming company, which has now seen three such attacks over the last two weeks.

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