Internet companies report biggest-ever denial of service operation

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Google, Amazon, and Cloudflare say the denial of service attack began in late August, while Google adds it is ongoing

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Denial of service is among the web’s most basic form of attack and it works by simply overwhelming targeted servers with a firehose of bogus requests for data, making it impossible for legitimate web traffic to get through. Google said in its blog post that only two minutes of one such attack “generated more requests than the total number of article views reported by Wikipedia during the entire month of September 2023.” Cloudflare said the attack was of a magnitude that “has never been seen before.”

 

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