A recent report from the internet security company Cloudflare details an increase in what is known as hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks since the beginning of this year. One of these attacks was a hyper-volumetric attack boasting more than 71 million HTTP requests per second. In this week's REDSHORT, we will give a brief refresher on DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks and how the techniques and methods of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks differ from other approaches.
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