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Cloudflare warns of another massive botnet, er, flaring up

• dbg31415 10y ago
  And other than make jokes about my Slack alerts channel turning on Christmas early, what exactly should we do about this? I wish there was something Google could put on the Chrome timeout page that let users know there was something going on. I get calls at 4AM from some exec, "The site is down!" Except it isn't, isn't impacted for everyone, and other than say, "I've responded to you in the SLA-approved window," there isn't much I can do. Ugh.
  • pmlnr 10y ago
    I too, would like to seem some exact sw configuration, some iptables/kernel extension to inspect packets against attacks like this. Maybe we need heuristic firewalls like we did with virus scanners a long while ago? ( But of course, CloudFlare will only suggest to sign up with them for protection, all hail capitalism, even if it takes our system down. )
    • user5994461 10y ago
      It's not capitalism. The traffic does need to be stopped at the edge, that's the only defense. There is only Cloudflare or Akamai to let you do that.