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

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> On 6 Mar 2018, at 9:15 am, Saunders, D'Wayne <DWayne.Saunders at team.telstra.com> wrote:
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> https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/netscout-arbor-confirms-1-7-tbps-ddos-attack-terabit-attack-era-upon-us <https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/netscout-arbor-confirms-1-7-tbps-ddos-attack-terabit-attack-era-upon-us>
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> And they get bigger
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> On 6 Mar 2018, at 09:14, David Vidos - NOVA iT GROUP <David.Vidos at novaitgroup.com.au <mailto:David.Vidos at novaitgroup.com.au>> wrote:
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>> Regards,
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>> David Vidos
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>> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] On Behalf Of Rory Jones
>> Sent: Saturday, 3 March 2018 8:58 PM
>> To: Jamie Le <jamie at mungi.com.au <mailto:jamie at mungi.com.au>>; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Github was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack establishing a new record
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>> 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...
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>> Kind regards,
>> Rory
>> From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>> on behalf of Jamie Le <jamie at mungi.com.au <mailto:jamie at mungi.com.au>>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2018 4:16:03 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Github was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack establishing a new record
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>> 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.
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>> https://githubengineering.com/ddos-incident-report/ <https://githubengineering.com/ddos-incident-report/>
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>> The attackers used misconfigured Memcached servers.
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>> Just another FYI to reinforce against this exploit
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>> Kind Regards,
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