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<div style="direction:ltr">Sorry to thread crap, but I couldn’t help finding it slightly ironic wondering what would happen if the hackers in charge would have needed to pull some remotely hacker-y software for the exploit...</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> AusNOG <ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Jamie Le <jamie@mungi.com.au><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 3, 2018 4:16:03 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Github was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack establishing a new record</font>
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<div dir="auto"><span>This week GitHub was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack. It thus established a new record. After few minutes the attack was mitigated by Akamai, who was called in by GitHub.</span>
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<div><span>The attackers used misconfigured Memcached servers.</span></div>
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<div><span>Just another FYI to reinforce against this exploit<br>
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