The New York Times this morning published a story about the Spamhaus DDoS attack and how CloudFlare helped mitigate it and keep the site online. The Times calls the attack the largest known DDoS attack ever on the Internet. We wrote about the attack last week. At the time, it was a large attack, sending 85Gbps of traffic. Since then, the attack got much worse. Here are some of the technical details of what we've seen.
read more.........http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet
PS: I for one think cloudflare is just trying to leverage this attack to acquire additional business. After all did this really affect overall Internet traffic? I think not!
read more.........http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet
PS: I for one think cloudflare is just trying to leverage this attack to acquire additional business. After all did this really affect overall Internet traffic? I think not!