The new reality of DDOS
summary
Cloudflare runs a global network of 118 data centers and reports concrete DDoS patterns: botnets of ~52,000 devices deliver attacks like ~2 million HTTP requests per second, or sustained floods such as 360 Gbps for an hour; IoT SSDP reflection yields 112 Gbps with ~22× amplification. Defenses that matter are practical: large pipes, simple NGINX rate limiting, iptables blocks for port 1900, and using Cloudflare or open‑source rerouting/filtering tools rather than debating abstract threat models.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:21Ddos Attacks
- 1:48Cloudflare
- 2:13Goal of Cloudflare
- 4:05The Internet of Things
- 14:40Where Attacks Come from
- 25:25Http Rate-Limiting
- 25:56Http Rate Limiting
- 34:20The Great Cannon
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