dns reflection attack

September 21, 2016

KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Record DDoS

This post was originally published on this siteOn Tuesday evening, KrebsOnSecurity.com was the target of an extremely large and unusual distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack designed to knock the site offline. The attack did not succeed thanks to the hard work of the engineers at Akamai, the company that protects my site from such digital sieges. But according to Akamai, it was nearly double the size of the largest attack they’d seen previously, and was among the biggest assaults the Internet has ever witnessed. The attack began around 8 p.m. ET on Sept. 20, and initial reports put it at approximately 665 Gigabits […]
September 21, 2016

KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Record DDoS

This post was originally published on this siteOn Tuesday evening, KrebsOnSecurity.com was the target of an extremely large and unusual distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack designed to knock the site offline. The attack did not succeed thanks to the hard work of the engineers at Akamai, the company that protects my site from such digital sieges. But according to Akamai, it was nearly double the size of the largest attack they’d seen previously, and was among the biggest assaults the Internet has ever witnessed. The attack began around 8 p.m. ET on Sept. 20, and initial reports put it at approximately 665 Gigabits […]