[AusNOG] Github was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack establishing a new record

[Jamie Le]

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.
https://githubengineering.com/ddos-incident-report/
The attackers used misconfigured Memcached servers.
Just another FYI to reinforce against this exploit

Kind Regards,
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