GitHub successfully tackles the world’s largest DDoS attack in cyber history

 

"It was an amplification attack using the memcached-based approach that peaked at 1.35Tbps via 126.9 million packets per second," the company writes. Talking about "memcrashing," it basically involves exploiting memcache servers that companies use to speed up their web applications. As most of …

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