All posts written by Richard Grey
We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
Earlier this year, the FreeAgent marketing website www.freeagent.com was the target of a volumetric Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) HTTP flood attack. This was a relatively unsophisticated attack in that it targeted a particular static endpoint of our website with a massive number of HTTP GET requests from multiple remote IP addresses around the globe, as visualised on the map below. Predominantly serving the UK small business base, FreeAgent wouldn’t… Continue reading