Posted on 03/06/2018 9:46:55 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Security Internet Sees Its Biggest DDoS Attack at 1.7Tbps (These Headlines Will Keep Coming…) Author Photo By Rafia Shaikh 3 hours ago 13Shares Share Tweet Submit ddos memcached
If we thought GitHub surviving the biggest recorded DDoS attack would be the end of it, we were clearly wrong. Last week’s DDoS attack is now a history as DDoS mitigation firms are reporting an even bigger attack. Memcached distributed denial-of-service attacks are getting more disturbing by the day, as new attacks are now in the terabit territory.
Just a week after GitHub was temporarily knocked down by the then world’s largest recorded DDoS attack, an unnamed US internet service provider has been hit with an even a bigger attack – using the same technique that exploited memcached servers.
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No, a snarky, rude response to your question "1tbs to a single target is just not possible" that never should have been made, and for that I apologize.
When it is a distributed denial of service attack, you can have an aggregate number of web page request attempts from countless different locations that add up to 1.7 Tbps or more, regardless of the size of individual pipes in the backbone. The bottleneck for some requests may be far away from the intended target server, but the effects are felt none the less.
And the 1tbs never reaches the target, as was implied in the article.
Well there are alternatives in some varioues areas....
Did you type "Google" into Google by any chance?
This is why I do no business on the internet. I Also feel any company who has their data base hacked and your data is compromised should pay to protect your finances for life.
Interesting.
My observation: No attacks are either being originated from or perpetrated against Russia.
Must be under attack. Comes up but never resolves.
At least on Mac OS
Yep, the locally installed apps are for offline use. However, they are pushing hard to have your entire Active Directory in the cloud with all of your server infrastructure with Azure. We are currently testing moving our exchange to hosted O365, it’s been a huge process and a little scary.
Open Office is fine for a very small companies, but it’s just not going to replace hosted exchange anytime soon. And many companies use Sharepoint- that is another large item that Microsoft has the market cornered with.
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