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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by jl6 on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:07PM (#28578869)
Imagine the real-world equivalent: someone spreads a rumor that the Fifth Avenue Apple store is giving away free iPhones at 6pm. Ten thousand people turn up and block the store, the sidewalk, the roads…

How should a business defend against that without losing legitimate customers?

The answer is probably along the lines of “educate people not to believe rumors” (:: “educate people not to run insecure software”).

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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by sumedh on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:30AM (#28581708)
> (:: “educate people not to run insecure software”).

Some of these exploits uses zero day attacks, the users cannot do anything.

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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by smoldesu on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:10PM (#28578893)
How does secure software protect you from acknowledging perfectly innocuous requests?
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by jl6 on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:19PM (#28578968)
It’s the zombie-botnet-machine owners who need to be running more secure software, not the botnet victims.
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