1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the GitHub developer platform all at once. It had never happened before at this level.
It used an increasingly popular DDoS method, no botnet required. This turned out to be the most powerful
distributed denial of service attack recorded to date. It lasted for 10 minutes and GitHub survived. Here is how they did it.
https://www.wired.com/story/github-ddos-memcached/
What do you think about this attack?
Topic: GitHub Just Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded (Read 73 times)
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