Internet companies report biggest-ever denial of service operation

  • 📰 rapplerdotcom
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 26 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 14%
  • Publisher: 86%

Singapore News News

Singapore Singapore Latest News,Singapore Singapore Headlines

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

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.

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.”

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 4. in SG
 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Singapore Singapore Latest News, Singapore Singapore Headlines