9 Best Articles in 2021
WIRED
GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded
WIRED
5 min read · 219 saves · From 2018 · On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here's how it stayed online.
WIRED
How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet
WIRED
20+ min read · 92 saves · From 2017 · The DDoS attack that crippled the internet last fall wasn't the work of a nation-state. It was three college kids working a Minecraft hustle.
digitalattackmap.com
Digital Attack Map
digitalattackmap.com
1 min read · 55 saves · From 2013 · A live data visualization of DDoS attacks around the globe
In Digital Life
OneZero
Our Ability to Process Information Is Reaching a Critical Limit
OneZero
6 min read · 145 saves · 2020-06-29 · Eric Ravenscraft · The result feels like a mental DDoS attack
nginx.com
Mitigating DDoS Attacks with NGINX and NGINX Plus
nginx.com
~11 min read · 16 saves · From 2015 · Learn about the features in NGINX and NGINX Plus that make them a valuable part of a solution for DDoS attack mitigation
projectshield.withgoogle.com
Project Shield | Jigsaw
projectshield.withgoogle.com
2 min read · 30 saves · From 2016 · Project Shield is a free service that uses Google technology to protect news sites and freedom of expression from DDoS attacks online. Apply now.
Schneier Blog
Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
Schneier Blog
137 saves · From 2016 · Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to…
ZDNet
AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever
ZDNet
2 min read · 31 saves · 2020-06-17 · The previous record for the largest DDoS attack ever recorded was of 1.7 Tbps, recorded in March 2018.
gist.github.com
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siliconangle.com
Citrix warns of active DDoS attack targeting its Application Delivery Controllers
siliconangle.com
2 min read · 2020-12-25 · Citrix warns of active DDoS attack targeting its Application Delivery Controllers - SiliconANGLE
DarkReading
DDoS Attacks Spiked, Became More Complex in 2020
DarkReading
7 min read · 10 saves · 2020-12-30 · Global pandemic and the easy availability of for-hire services and inexpensive tool sets gave adversaries more opportunities to attack.
Help Net Security
Attacks are rising in all vectors and types
Help Net Security
2 min read · 2020-11-27 · DDoS, web application, bot, and other attacks are rising exponentially compared to the first half of 2019, according to CDNetworks.
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blog.fastmail.com
Dec 8: How to stop a DDoS attack
blog.fastmail.com
~11 min read · 17 saves · From 2015 · This is the eighth post in the FastMail 2015 Advent Calendar. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow.
ZDNet
Protocol used by 630,000 devices can be abused for devastating DDoS attacks
ZDNet
4 min read · 15 saves · 2019-08-27 · Security researchers warn that the WS-Discovery protocol is currently being abused for massive DDoS attacks.
idea.popcount.org
Strange Loop - IP Spoofing — Idea of the day
idea.popcount.org
~18 min read · 26 saves · From 2016 · I recently gave a talk at the Strange Loop conference in St Louis. The recording and slides are available, but for easier consumption here's a transcript. Good morning! This is the DDoS talk. It's…
ZDNet
Google says it mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017, largest known to date
ZDNet
1 min read · 10 saves · 2020-10-16 · Google discloses previously unknown DDoS attack.
ZDNet
Hacker leaks passwords for more than 500,000 servers, routers, and IoT devices
ZDNet
2 min read · 59 saves · 2020-01-19 · The list was shared by the operator of a DDoS booter service.
Cloudflare
The New DDoS Landscape
Cloudflare
10 min read · 10 saves · From 2017 · News outlets and blogs will frequently compare DDoS attacks by the volume of traffic that a victim receives. Surely this makes some sense, right? The greater the volume of traffic a victim receives, the harder to mitigate an attack - right? At least, this is how things used to work.
githubengineering.com
February 28th DDoS Incident Report
githubengineering.com
2 min read · 22 saves · From 2018 · On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 GitHub.com was unavailable from 17:21 to 17:26 UTC and intermittently unavailable from 17:26 to 17:30 UTC due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. We understand how much you rely on GitHub and we know the availability of our service is of critical importance to our users. To note, at no point was the confidentiality or integrity of your data at risk. We are sorry for the impact of this incident and would like to describe the event, the efforts we’ve t
cpomagazine.com
IoT-Based DDoS Attacks Are Growing and Making Use of Common Vulnerabilities
cpomagazine.com
3 min read · 19 saves · 2020-03-25 · Scott Ikeda · DDoS attacks on IoT devices continue to grow with report showing an increasing trend in using WS-Discovery (WSD) to amplify the effectiveness of attacks by up to 95%.
TNW
Massive DDOS attack against Dyn DNS is causing havoc online [Resolved]
TNW
3 min read · 11 saves · From 2016 · A massive DDOS attack against a popular upstream DNS provider is screwing up the Internet today.