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Massive DDoS Attack Leveraged Network Timing Protocol

posted onFebruary 12, 2014
by l33tdawg

One of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) ever seen hit the Internet Feb. 11, cloud security vendor CloudFlare reported.

The target was a CloudFlare customer, and the attack appears to have been just shy of 400G bps, Matthew Prince, the company's CEO, told eWEEK. "We're still gathering data from all our upstream providers to get the exact scale."

CloudFlare: What we learned while in the trenches with LulzSec

posted onFebruary 29, 2012
by l33tdawg

The notorious LulzSec announced the existence of LulzSecurity.com in a simple tweet on June 2, 2011. Within minutes that website was taken down by other hackers. However, less than an hour later LulzSec was back, and this time the site stayed up, at least until its announced "retirement" about three weeks later. What changed during that hour?