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"content": "<p>I've been working on an automated triager for the frequent volumetric DDOS we see against www.bbc.com & www.bbc.co.uk.</p><p>The idea is to use our edge access logs (stored in BigQuery) to isolate & describe the attack traffic then recommend any additional mitigations/filters etc. It also gives us a database of DDOS metrics/sources we can reference.</p><p>Obviously I had to add the obligatory pew-pew map.</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/WebStats\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>WebStats</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/InfosSec\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>InfosSec</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/DDOS\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>DDOS</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/BBC\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>BBC</span></a></p>",
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