DDos

[Claviusnex]

GOOGLE: ISPs are, without a doubt, the experts in DDoS mitigation and are uniquely positioned to protect their customers' network against malicious traffic. ISPs can detect and filter out potential DDoS packets before they reach your border, preventing such attacks from consuming all of your available bandwidth.

As far as I know from what i have heard from so many others you can prevent this and even stop it, though I don't know much about the process I do know that it is possible SE isn't helpless but they are doing nothing when they could be doing something.

It isn't the SE servers that are seeing the DDoS attack. It is the ISP, NTT, the use to connect to the internet that is being attacked. All SE can do is push on the provider to try to do a better job. By the NTT is not alone L3, another backbone provider, has been reporting attacks the last few days as well.