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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