๐ Throwback Thursday for 2025-01-23
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One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye. Specifically, the claim of ~5.6 Tbps of traffic during the peak of one DDoS attack.

Techmeme: In 2024, Cloudflare's autonomous DDoS defense systems blocked ~21.3M DDoS attacks, up 53% YoY, and 420+ DDoS attacks in Q4 2024 exceeded 1Tbps, up 1,885% QoQ (The Cloudflare Blog)
From The Cloudflare Blog. View the full context on Techmeme.
For perspective, in 2013 there was one DDoS attack that "almost broke the Internet" which was claimed to be ~0.085 Tbps of traffic.

Techmeme: The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet (Matthew Prince/CloudFlare blog)
This story, by Matthew Prince / CloudFlare blog, appeared on Techmeme.
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