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Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second
An anonymous reader writes "The NYT is reporting that the Largest DDoS in history reached 300 Gbps. The dispute started when the spam-fighting group Spamhaus added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its blacklist, which is used by e-mail providers to weed out spam. Millions of ordinary Internet users have experienced delays in services like Netflix or could not reach a particular Web site for a short time. Dutch authorities and the police have made several attempts to enter the bunker by force but failed to do so. The attacks were first mentioned publicly last week by Cloudflare, an Internet security firm in Silicon Valley that was trying to defend against the attacks and as a result became a target."
A Slashdot editor Yoda has become.
The summary makes it sound like the Cyberbunker is a physical location. If so, a wire cutter should cut off it's access to the inter webs.
WARNING: if you attempt to RTFA, you will also be bombarded by a DDOS of spam ads. I appreciate the realism but it's kinda annoying.
I wish there was a smaller unit than bits. The headline would become more exciting!
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On the edit-not side, the slashdot editors firmly are. Hmmm. Not give in to that side you must!
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Cutting their communication lines was the first thing I thought of too. Then cutting their power lines. I may not have enough cofee in me to calm me down this morning but visions of the Dirty Dozen dumping fuel and grenades into their bunker came to mind. }:D
If Carnival Cruise Lines have taught us anything, just back up their toilets. They'll be out in a jiffy.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar