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2020-06-19 Cyber

Amazon says spent three days fighting off largest denial of service cyber attack ever recorded

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

AWS Shield, designed to protect Amazon cloud accounts against DDoS attacks, says it safeguarded against the biggest DDoS attack ever recorded

The attack funneled 2.3 terabits of data per second at its target

Amazon says the the CLDAP (Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) was exploited

A previous record was set in 2018 with a max of 1.7 terabits per second

Amazon didn't name the target of the three day long attack in mid-February

Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 It's like tearing down statutes. If the provocateurs and wreckers don't pay for what they're doing, they'll keep on doing it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-19 08:24|| 2020-06-19 08:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Except for the gummint subsidies (cheap delivery via failing USPS) Amazon is as close to a pure capitalist play as you can find nowadays. Owner super rich. Workers at the bottom really just scraping by. If the cyber left was looking for a target appropriate to their beliefs, they picked the right one.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-19 13:31|| 2020-06-19 13:31|| Front Page Top

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