Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning
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Re: Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning
#2What this one-off look does not tell me - are the attacks higher on new areas not used to attacks, or are the highlighted areas used to a significant level of attacks and might therefore have defences?
And 98% of what?
At a glance and with no real history or numbers this would seem meaningless.
Re: Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning
#3Lately i noticed a number of cloudfare outages in popular websites, does this relate or is it just because the cloudfare network had some technical glitches?
Re: Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning
#4Lately i noticed a number of cloudfare outages in popular websites, does this relate or is it just because the cloudfare network had some technical glitches?
Which sites?
Re: Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning
#5What this one-off look does not tell me - are the attacks higher on new areas not used to attacks, or are the highlighted areas used to a significant level of attacks and might therefore have defences? And 98% of what? At a glance and with no real history or numbers this would seem meaningless.
There's a lot of chatter over on Reddit about it [0]. There was a pretty widespread outage around 4 hours ago. Likely an accumulation of attacks in commemoration of the anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death, as have been going on the last few days.
[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1v3fb2/internets...
Re: Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning
#6Very low amount of news in this article, doesn't mention the attack being used. I feel I needed to assume its a DDoS. But then several types of DDoS don't require large amounts of network traffic (and traffic volumes would be the easiest way to see DDoS from the outside looking in) some DDoS's can keep a server down with 10-100 packets per second.
Basically I learned nothing, and I want this article to have a "Want to know more?" button.
Re: Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning
#7Is this a rare occurrence? 198% of "very little" is still very little.
I would've thought the figure often fluctuates by much more than this.
Re: Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning
#8Re: Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning
#9Lately i noticed a number of cloudfare outages in popular websites, does this relate or is it just because the cloudfare network had some technical glitches?
Which sites?
geenstijl.nl,
cex.io
and a number of others i forgot - i just noticed it the past 3 months.. perhaps a lot of new sites switched to cloudfare during that time?
Re: Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning
#10The chaps that keep the CloudFlare global network running do seem a bit busy than usual today. I asked if there were "more attacks than usual" and they replied "Yes" and rushed off to do something.