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DDoS Larger Than the Spamhaus Attack Strikes US and Europe

Posted by Unknown on from the do-not-stare-directly-into-the-udp-packet dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "CloudFlare has been hit by what appears to be the world's largest denial of service attack, in an assault that exploits an emerging and frightening threat vector. The Network Time Protocol Reflection attack exploits a timing mechanism that underpins a way the Internet works to greatly amplify the power of what would otherwise be a small and ineffective assault. CloudFlare said the attack tipped 400Gbps, 100Gbps higher than the previous record DDoS attack which used DNS reflective amplification."

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  1. Sounds a lot like the slahshdot beta reviews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dice wanted opinions and everyone hates it. Anyone that doesn't support it gets their comments deleted or modded down. The amount of response was overwhelming and a record at that. Why don't you listen? Well, the people that cared moved on to altslashdot's IRC so good luck. Nobody gives a crap about slashdot beta

    1. Re:Sounds a lot like the slahshdot beta reviews by JohnSearle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Dice wanted opinions and everyone hates it. Anyone that doesn't support it gets their comments deleted or modded down.

      I hate Slashdot Beta as much as the next guy... but you're off on the comment deletion or modding down bit. There has been a constant flood of hateful comments aimed at Beta, and pretty well anything that says "Fuck Beta" in it gets modded up.

      Examples:
      Fuck Beta
      Slashdot BETA Sucks

      Or go find the negative comment of your choice in the main hate thread. There are plenty of them marked as insightful