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Part of me has to wonder, how wise is it to attack somebody such as Cloudflare? I know they are a juicy target. But, part of their job is to learn and defend ag
by ericcholis 14y ago
Part of me has to wonder, how wise is it to attack somebody such as Cloudflare? I know they are a juicy target. But, part of their job is to learn and defend against downtime. If their ops are worth a salt (and it appears they are), they've been logging every bit of information they can about these attacks. Logging allows them to do two things:
1) Learn how to mitigate the attack in the future
2) Catalog data on botnets
Cataloging data on these botnets is one sure way to get them shut down.
- dfc 14y agoIf you were one to brag about such things, what would you rather boast about? I DOS'ed Billy Bob's Bike Repair website or I DOS'ed CloudFlare?
- dotBen 14y agoBilly Bob's Bike Repair, because I know I can bring their site down. I also know that I won't be able to bring down CF or sites running behind their infrastructure so no g33k cred to be had, etc.
- dfc 14y agoYou think CloudFlare is infallible? I use their service but I doubt they are the first company in the history of commerce that is perfect.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoThey aren't, but they are very, very hard to bring down or slow down without a very big botnet.
- eastdakota 14y agoYup. We've got tons of data on the machines launching these attacks. We're working on a plan to begin publishing it so even sites not on CloudFlare can better protect themselves. Stay tuned.