14 stories tagged ddos, newest first.
30 points by jruohonen | 9 comments
A 1998 essay by Stefan Wray describing the Electronic Disturbance Theater, its FloodNet tool, and the theory and practice of Electronic Civil Disobedience.
19 points by nine_ch | 16 comments
Blog post from Swiss cloud provider Nine describing a three-day DDoS attack in August and what it revealed about weaknesses in their network.
15 points by panic | 6 comments
A blog postmortem by xkeeper describing an August 27 DDoS attack against The Cutting Room Floor (TCRF) wiki and how it was handled.
565 points by nobody9999 | 341 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.today and is removing about 695,000 archive links after DDoS and snapshot-tampering allegations.
464 points by speckx | 291 comments
News report that Microsoft Azure mitigated a record 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack from the Aisuru botnet using about 500,000 IP addresses.
317 points by DoctorOW | 237 comments
Blog post describing how the ScummVM project used the Anubis proof-of-work proxy to fend off a DDoS attack on its website, wiki, and forums.
1029 points by ewenjo | 564 comments
The Verge reports the Internet Archive suffered a breach exposing info for 31 million accounts amid days of DDoS attacks, revealed via a popup message.
409 points by toomanyrichies | 166 comments
Social media post from the Internet Archive announcing archive.org is under a DDoS attack, with data unaffected but most services unavailable.
338 points by rapnie | 168 comments
SourceHut founder Drew DeVault's January 2024 statement on a prolonged outage caused by a DDoS attack and the loss of its primary datacenter.
694 points by tomzur | 425 comments
Google Cloud blog post describing how Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, which peaked above 398 million requests per second.
335 points by jsnell | 96 comments
Google Cloud blog post explaining how the HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack technique works, using stream cancellation to generate record-breaking request floods.
356 points by mmastrac | 209 comments
A Mastodon post showing a Firefox network console screenshot of Twitter's web client flooding its own servers with repeated requests, effectively self-DDoSing.
1275 points by ZacnyLos | 208 comments
A Mastodon post with videos showing Twitter's web client firing about 10 requests per second at its own servers after Twitter started requiring login to read tweets.
665 points by campuscodi | 237 comments
Blog post investigating how the Swing VPN mobile app uses its users' devices as a botnet to DDoS websites.