On 08.01.2015 16:33, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 07.01.2015 22:46, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> One thing I can say is that some adversaries are very good at coordinating >> an attack from a huge pool of IP addresses (e.g. a botnet), at a low rate >> per IP address. This type of attack is hard to detect. Presumably each bot >> in the net is used to attack many different services simultaneously. > > What's strange is that there are only few actual POST requests > trying to log in or create new accounts and all the GET requests > are missing the user/password parameters. Doesn't look like > bots trying passwords. > > Perhaps we just got slashdot'ted (is that still the right term ;-)) > and browsers are preloading links.
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