Cloudflare is fighting one of the largest DDoS attacks in history (thenextweb.com) 15 points by leoyuholo 12y ago ↗ HN
[–] leoyuholo 12y ago ↗ The attack is started on 16 Jun, which pull down the political surveying site http://www.popvote.hk. It is a project initiated by The University of Hong Kong. http://hkupop.hku.hk/english/release/release1149.html [–] leoyuholo 12y ago ↗ Two days later, 18 Jun, website of the most popular local press in Hong Kong, apple daily[1], was also under attack. Taiwan branch of AppleDaily also felt victim to the attack. And AppleDaily turned to post news on Facebook[2].[1]: http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/ [2]: https://www.facebook.com/hk.nextmedia
[–] leoyuholo 12y ago ↗ Two days later, 18 Jun, website of the most popular local press in Hong Kong, apple daily[1], was also under attack. Taiwan branch of AppleDaily also felt victim to the attack. And AppleDaily turned to post news on Facebook[2].[1]: http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/ [2]: https://www.facebook.com/hk.nextmedia
[–] jacquesct 12y ago ↗ What would be interesting is for Cloudflare to mention how much traffic is hitting which of their locations and how isolated the traffic is.
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[ 6.1 ms ] story [ 18.2 ms ] thread[1]: http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/ [2]: https://www.facebook.com/hk.nextmedia