Defending the Internet: How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

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• ter_maxima@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  CloudFlare keeps blocking me, so I take their accomplishments with a grain of salt.

  Their mitigation comes at the cost of legitimate users being blocked, despite correctly identifying the bicycles in 16 different captchas in a row…

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes this is propoganda garbage. I wouldn’t miss cloud flare for a second.

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• UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What site was attacked? I don’t think the article mentions it.

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  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cloudflare presumably don’t want to give away the identity of their customer.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was TotallyRealSiteWeAreALegitimateCompanyPleaseKeepPayingUs.com

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• ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sorry y’all, that was me trying to update my jellyfin metadata

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  we’re at war with eastasia. We’ve always been at war with eastasia.

  • Big Brother

  Really has “trust me bro” energy.

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