2016-03-03 20:34:34.506914+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Here's an interesting development: Cloudflare: 400Gbps: Winter of Whopping Weekend DDoS Attacks:
... These new attacks are interesting for a couple of reasons. First, the spikes align with the weekends. It seems the attackers are busy with something else during the week. Second, they are targeting a couple of fairly benign websites—this demonstrates that anybody can become the target of a large attack. Third, the overall volume of the attack is enormous.
Interesting because once again we're back to a broadcast model with the web. We're back to the "content flows from centralized servers" state of data, and going that direction in ever stronger ways.