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> We noticed these attacks at the same time two other major industry players — Google and AWS — were seeing the same. Curious if there's anyone in the HN crowd
by glenngillen 3y ago
> We noticed these attacks at the same time two other major industry players — Google and AWS — were seeing the same.
Curious if there's anyone in the HN crowd that works at this level in one of the major vendors. What happens during an attack of this scale? Are there people from Cloudflare + Google + AWS on a live videoconference call co-ordinating with each other in real-time to mitigate it? Or is each vendor mostly observing from a distance what is happening elsewhere, and solely focussed on sorting their own problems out?
- menscher 3y agoWe typically fight our own fires, but if one of us sees something interesting/new we often ask others (after the fire is out) if anyone else saw a similar attack (which could be a new botnet, a new attack method, or whatever). In this case we realized we were all looking at the same thing (which could have huge impact on smaller targets), so collaborated on understanding the problem and coordinated the security response with all webserver vendors.
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