Cloudflare Spectrum brings DDoS protection to any TCP protocol

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Distributed denial-of-service attacks, also known as DDoS attacks, have been increasingly employed around the internet. Last month, GitHub suffered the largest DDoS attack ever recorded, with a peak of 1.35Tbps of incoming traffic, which was possible due to vulnerabilities found on memcached servers. The tools used to launch such attack were later made public on GitHub itself, enabling anyone to start one's own DDoS attack.
Of course, there are also DDoS mitigation services available for those who happen to become victim to such attacks. For example, Cloudflare was already capable of containing HTTP or HTTPS DDoS attacks against web servers. In fact, earlier this week, they were able to block a 900Gbps attack, as reported in the tweet below.
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But yesterday, Cloudflare announced a new service, Cloudflare Spectrum, that extends their support from only HTTP and HTTPS protocols to any TCP protocol, including gaming services, remote server access, email, and any proprietary TCP protocol. As stated by Cloudflare product manager, Dani Grant, in the announcement:
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