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Reuben Walker aka mobileatom
Reuben Walker aka mobileatom
@mobileatom@flipboard.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack. #socialMedia

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discourse-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-attack/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack

In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufactured with default passwords that nobody ever changed, all simultaneously requesting his homepage. No single request was malicious. Each packet was
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