Sourcehut [open source competitor to Github] is being DDoSed
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DDOS question/curiosity
Non-comp person here; is there a record for longest period of time a DDOS attack occurred on a website? Would it be possible to forcibly keep a site offline for an extended length of time with a...
Non-comp person here; is there a record for longest period of time a DDOS attack occurred on a website? Would it be possible to forcibly keep a site offline for an extended length of time with a continuous DDOS attack?
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QAnon/8Chan sites briefly knocked offline after call to internet provider
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New DDoS vector observed in the wild leveraging WS-Discovery for amplification, attacks hitting 35 Gbps
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UkDrillas announce intention to DDOS WoW Classic Servers
@ukdrillas: In roughly 20-30mins. Will attack every US PVP WoW server. Just setting up domain =)
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"Satori" Internet-of-Things botnet operator Kenneth Currin Schuchman pleads guilty
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Telegram founder points to China hacking attack during Hong Kong protest
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Security alert: pipdig [popular WordPress theme provider] insecure, DDoSing competitors
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The FBI has seized the domains of fifteen DDoS-for-hire services, and filed criminal charges against three people associated with them
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Ajit Pai knew DDoS claim was false in January, says he couldn’t tell Congress
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How would Tildes mitigate a DDOS attack?
While reading up on what it takes to run this site, it just occurred to me that the site is hosted on one server with one network connection. Adding a CDN or cloud based DDOS protection would run...
While reading up on what it takes to run this site, it just occurred to me that the site is hosted on one server with one network connection. Adding a CDN or cloud based DDOS protection would run contrary to the "no third party" thing we've got going on here, so that doesn't seem like an option.
So I got to wondering, what would happen if a malicious actor were to sic a botnet on us? I imagine the outcome would not be good. Do we have any strategies to deal with this?
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