A DDoS attack on popvote.hk, a site that hosts an online poll for the residents of Hong Kong to express their opinion on the current election system, failed to disrupt the activity of the website. According to Matthew Prince, founder and CEO of CloudFlare the company that protected the website from being taken down, the attack could be thwarted because the company knew about its imminence and took the necessary precautions. At its peak, the DDoS recorded traffic of 300GB per second, …
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