오늘 우리는 Spectrum을 발표 하였습니다: 어떤 TCP 기반의 프로토콜이라도 DDoS 방어, 로드밸런싱 그리고 컨텐츠 가속을 할 수 있는 새로운 Cloudflare의 기능입니다.
The real cause of large DDoS - IP Spoofing
A week ago we published a story about new amplification attacks using memcached protocol on UDP port 11211. A few things happened since then: Github announced it was a target of 1.3Tbps memcached attack. OVH and Arbor reported similar large attacks with the peak reported at 1.7Tbps.
Memcrashed - Major amplification attacks from UDP port 11211
Over last couple of days we've seen a big increase in an obscure amplification attack vector - using the memcached protocol, coming from UDP port 11211. In the past, we have talked a lot about amplification attacks happening on the internet.
However improbable: The story of a processor bug
Processor problems have been in the news lately, due to the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. But generally, engineers writing software assume that computer hardware operates in a reliable, well-understood fashion, and that any problems lie on the software side of the software-hardware divide.
Inside the infamous Mirai IoT Botnet: A Retrospective Analysis
This is a guest post by Elie Bursztein who writes about security and anti-abuse research. It was first published on his blog and has been lightly edited. This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds