In der ersten Jahreshälfte 2013 ereignete sich die bisher grösste DDoS-Attacke in der Geschichte des Internets.
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why this attack was a denial of service attack rather than a compromise of the affected devices: by simply flooding, the Speedport router becomes slower in accepting TCP conns and finally accepts none -> restart helped temporarily
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