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I would not be surprised to find out that companies that have significant exposure to video game users have much higher DDOS risks.
by shkkmo 7y ago
I would not be surprised to find out that companies that have significant exposure to video game users have much higher DDOS risks.
- makomk 7y agoThey do, and CloudFlare has historically been part of the reason why they have such high DDoS risks. There's a bunch of "booter" sites out there which effectively sell botnet-as-a-service DDoS attacks to gamers, and those sites have relied on CloudFlare to stay online. Without that protection their competitors would DDoS their websites offline most of the time. Also, most reputable hosting and CDN services don't allow booters because they're both highly illegal and disruptive to the entire internet. CloudFlare, on the other hand, openly permits them.
- bsenftner 7y agoWe were hit hard by Chinese IP addresses. After a while we just blocked the entire Chinese IP range. Expecting script kiddies to try to hack our system, we started out with a Federal Reserve quality hardware firewall, and I suspect the presence of that security attracted attention.
- alexbanks 7y agoCan confirm.