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Re:February 28th DDoS Incident Report by gjtorikian on Thursday March 01, 2018 @11:35AM (#16493435)
It's the largest recorded attack: https://www.wired.com/story/github-ddos-memcached
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Re:February 28th DDoS Incident Report by jwilk on Thursday March 01, 2018 @12:15PM (#16493916)
The GitHub post says the amplification factor is 51000, while the Wired article says it's 50. So which is it?
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Re:February 28th DDoS Incident Report by jgrahamc on Thursday March 01, 2018 @12:25PM (#16494034)
We've seen 51,000x. I've personally looked at the pcaps of that.
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