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Without robust and easily scaled infrastructure in place ahead of time, an organic DDOS is one of the most difficult situations to mitigate. Not much can be don
by taywrobel 3y ago
Without robust and easily scaled infrastructure in place ahead of time, an organic DDOS is one of the most difficult situations to mitigate. Not much can be done in terms of traffic shaping, rate limiting, or bot detection.
- caymanjim 3y agoI agree. Protecting against DDoS attacks is incredibly difficult. I'm just enjoying the irony of Def Con, the premiere computer security and hacking convention, not being able to handle traffic. To be fair, I don't think they crashed; I saw a "sorry too much traffic try later" type message. Still amuses me.
- loriverkutya 3y agoTo me this means they decided not to handle the traffic instead of can’t handle it.
- komali2 3y agoI guess it's funny, but the attendees don't necessarily represent the organizers. The best hackers in the world may be in the building during Defcon but I don't think the Defcon organization itself necessarily employs them.
- ranger_danger 3y agothe current way to most effectively get around DDoS seems to be using a proof-of-work based frontend run on as many revolving reverse proxies around the world as you can afford. this is what kiwifarms does. seems pretty effective and a lot cheaper than what the people bankrolling the attacks on them are spending.
- shadowgovt 3y agoOf course, a robust and easily-scaled infrastructure is pretty easy to rent these days... ... if you're willing to trust another company with your data.
- colecut 3y agoI would trust just about any company with information that I want to be available to the public
- paxys 3y agoAn HN front page “DDoS” is like 20K hits. This isn't some complex scaling challenge. Any website on the internet should be able to handle it, especially a purely informational one.
- o11c 3y agoAs a reference, 10K simultaneous hits was an achievable challenge back in ... 1999.
- quickthrower2 3y agoNow you just front it with a CDN. Easy.
- px43 3y agoThis also blew up on every social media and news site as well, not just here.
- MrBruh 3y agoI had my blog be on the front page for ~6-8 hours racking up 100k+ unique loads. It also managed to survive just fine on a $5 VPS so I would hope that other sites could survive.