Reviving an old thread:
A typical DoS in the year 2000 was about 100 Mbps.
We’re 18 years down the line from that. 14 doublings on 100 Mbps is about 1.6
Tbps, so the first-order derivative of DoS magnitude by year is considerably
less than 2.
It’s not that far away from linearly tracking the g
y, 3 March 2018 8:58 PM
To: Jamie Le mailto:ja...@mungi.com.au>>;
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Github was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack establishing a new
record
Sorry to thread crap, but I couldn’t help finding it slightly ironic wondering
what
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Github was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack establishing a new
record
Sorry to thread crap, but I couldn’t help finding it slightly ironic wondering
what would happen if the hackers in charge would have needed to pull some
remotely hacker-y software
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Github was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack establishing a new
record
Sorry to thread crap, but I couldn't help finding it slightly ironic wondering
what would happen if the hackers in charge would have needed to pull some
remotely hacker-y software for the exploit...
Kind
: Saturday, March 3, 2018 4:16:03 PM
To: ausnog@lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Github was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack establishing a new
record
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This week GitHub was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack. It thus established a new
record. After few minutes the attack was mitigated by Akamai, who was called in
by GitHub.
https://githubengineering.com/ddos-incident-report/
The attackers used misconfigured Memcached servers.
Just another FYI to reinforc
