Cloudflare detects and mitigates largest-ever DDoS attack on record

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. revealed today that it has managed to detect and mitigate dozens of “hyper-volumetric” distributed denial-of-service attacks over the weekend of Feb. 11-12, including the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record. The majority of the DDoS attacks peaked at about 50 million to 70 million requests per second, with the […]

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