Lightboard Lessons: Explaining the GitHub DDoS Attack
On Feb 28, 2018 the popular website GitHub was the victim of the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in recorded history. The attackers used open memcached servers to launch an ampli...
Published Mar 06, 2018
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NimbostratusGreat explanation of an amplification attack. Hadn't heard of memcached being the amplifying application before.