Akamai Helps GitHub Survive The Largest Recorded DDoS Attack – 1.3 Tbps
Posted onIt was interesting to hear of a massive DDoS that Akamai Prolexic seemingly effortlessly mitigated for its customer, GitHub, on February 28th. The 1.3 Terabits per second attack was mitigated in less than 15-20 minutes and was the largest ever recorded in history. The attack uses a flaw in memcached servers that allows reflected attacks […]