The largest HTTPS distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in history materialized last week, Cloudflare has confirmed. Cloudflare, which specializes in DDoS mitigation, announced that it successfully prevented the record-breaking onslaught before it could inflict any real damage. Getty Images As reported by Bleeping Computer, the company revealed that it recorded a 26 million requests per second…
Cloudflare, a company that specializes in web security and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack mitigation, just reported that it managed to stop an attack of an unprecedented scale. The HTTPS DDoS attack was one of the largest such attacks ever recorded, and it came from unusual sources — data centers. Cloudflare The attack was…
Cloudflare, a web infrastructure and security company, has just released a report titled “DDoS Attack Trends for Q4 2021.” According to Cloudflare, 2021 has been a particularly bad year in terms of DDoS attacks. Ransom distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks increased by over 175 percent quarter over quarter, highlighting the large scale of the…
AMD just picked up a big win. Cloudflare, one of the largest networks powering the internet today, announced that it will continue using AMD’s Epyc server CPUs instead of Intel Xeon for its next generation of servers. For these new servers, Cloudflare is moving from second-generation Epyc Rome processors to third-generation Epyc Milan processors. In…