DDoS attack animation

May 30, 2013


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In distributed denial-of-service attack a bunch of machines make a bunch of requests to a server to make it buckle under the pressure. There was recently an attack on VideoLAN’s download infrastructure. Here’s what it looked like.

So you see this giant swarm of requests hitting the server. In contrast, here’s what normal traffic looks like. Much more tranquil.

[via FastCo]