Stress Testing the Booters: Understanding and Undermining the Business of DDoS Services — mentioned by echochamber1

Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:34:57 GMT

If you're using CloudFlare to protect your site against DDoS, you're essentially participating as part of a passive protection racket. "That's a pretty bold claim," you may reasonably contend. Here are the facts: - A very large proportion (I would conservatively estimate >50%) of DDoS-for-hire sites are hosted on CloudFlare. I couldn't find a comprehensive survey of all attack service providers, but in a recent sample[1], 100% of the services were protected by CloudFlare. - CloudFlare will not discontinue service for customers offering DDoS-for-hire services unless you are the police and…

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Stress Testing the Booters: Understanding and Undermining the Business of DDoS Services — mentioned by echochamber1