Incident Post-Mortem: DDoS Attack
Overview
We recently experienced a significant outage caused by a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack targeting our upstream phone infrastructure carrier.
What is a DDoS Attack?
A Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted service, network, or server by overwhelming it with excessive internet traffic from multiple sources.
Incident Details
Our upstream provider had...