Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps

Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by bombcar on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:33AM (#37832634)

The main problem is how do you authenticate the request as being legitimate? It's already possible to spoof headers and "FROM-IP" (in fact, major DDoS attacks use just this as a replay attack, spoof a DNS request as coming from 1.1.1.1 and get a much larger response sent TO 1.1.1.1 from wherever).

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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by codedokode on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @01:57PM (#37835279)

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