In between e10s, Servo, and the new developer theme in the current Nightly, I feel like Firefox is finally starting to become more competitive to other browsers again. I switched to Chrome because it seemed like Firefox…
The implication in the article seems to be it's a GET/POST flood though, not DNS-based. Granted, for DNS amplification, having big enough pipes starts to matter a lot more, which is where providers like OVH shine…
Depends on the attack and how sophisticated it is. For most layer 7 attacks like this one, you can filter e.g. specific user agents or protocols. One thing that often works (but has some false positives with simpler…
I actually sent an email offering to help (I have a lot of experience mitigating DDoS attacks) but never received a reply. I imagine they must already have something in the works to resolve this.
In between e10s, Servo, and the new developer theme in the current Nightly, I feel like Firefox is finally starting to become more competitive to other browsers again. I switched to Chrome because it seemed like Firefox…
The implication in the article seems to be it's a GET/POST flood though, not DNS-based. Granted, for DNS amplification, having big enough pipes starts to matter a lot more, which is where providers like OVH shine…
Depends on the attack and how sophisticated it is. For most layer 7 attacks like this one, you can filter e.g. specific user agents or protocols. One thing that often works (but has some false positives with simpler…
I actually sent an email offering to help (I have a lot of experience mitigating DDoS attacks) but never received a reply. I imagine they must already have something in the works to resolve this.