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   3.15 billion packet-per-second DDoS attack mitigated against Minecraft customer(globalsecurelayer.com)

   3 points by bandwidth 2y ago|1 comments
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   by bandwidth 3y ago

   Surplus load from Meta users flocking to other platforms
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   by bandwidth 3y ago

   Surely the repeated logins can't be helping the situation. I suppose it is entirely auth related across all Meta products. The repeated strain could pose a cold start problem for example.
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   by bandwidth 4y ago

   The other agenda is also pleasing shareholders and ensuring PR / damage control is mitigated at all costs. Their stock price has been falling since Thursday after all.
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   by bandwidth 4y ago

   Okay so all we need now is a few IoT toasters to send 25G of DDoS traffic right?
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   by bandwidth 4y ago

   The VP of Rogers admits they have yet to identify the root cause: https://twitter.com/PnPCBC/status/1545512971878662145
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   by bandwidth 4y ago

   If you're okay with load balancing DNS queries across multiple providers you could do 2x Cloudflare primary NS, 2x GCP for example where each provider is in sync with each other. If not, a manual swap at the registrar level would be go
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   by bandwidth 5y ago

   Could be a GCP outage but not widespread enough for them to report it. Perhaps API gateway is facing issues.