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NETSCOUT
Company blog · netscout.com/blog/asertsecuritysystems
NETSCOUT is the company blog at netscout.com, writing about security and systems. Since 2018, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments cite NETSCOUT pages, including ASERT threat summaries, the DDoS attack map, and Arbor mitigation product pages, as references on DDoS attacks and mitigation equipment.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /blog/mastodon-stampede2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-11
What Hacker News says?
This is what I don't get >The Aisuru DDoS botnet operates as a DDoS-for-hire service with restricted clientele; operators have reportedly implemented preventive measures to avoid attacking governmental, law enforcement, military, and other national security properties. Most observed Aisuru attacks to date appear to be related to online gaming. https://www.netscout.com/blog/asert/asert-threat-summary-ais... So why? L…
Comment linking /blog/asert/asert-threat-summary-aisuru-and-related-turbomirai-botnet-ddos
on “Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses”Submitted Decoding TCP SYN for Stronger Network Security as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's not the 15k followers of ItsFOSS who are generating traffic, it is the servers of those 15k accounts own followers who see shares, boosts, or re-shares of content. Given that Mastodon, and the larger Fediverse of which it itself is only a part (though a large share of total activity), are, well, federated (as TFA notes pointedly), sharing links requires each instance to make a request. I'm not particularly clea…
Comment linking /blog/mastodon-stampede
on “Please don't share our links on Mastodon”Submitted Threat Actor NoName057(16) launches DDoS attacks from public CDNs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe protocol is fine for federation without any sort of centralization - though this causes some problems to be noted. The servers... less so. The servers have difficulty when something goes viral (and the content that it links to may also have trouble as noted in https://mastodon.social/@jwz/109411593248255294 (even though this is jwz, this link is safe)) If you have a small mastodon instance that has a member that…
Comment linking /blog/mastodon-stampede
on “Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)”Submitted Remembering SQL Slammer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThey do have special equipment at the edges like: https://www.netscout.com/arbor
Comment linking /arbor
on “Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps”Submitted Musical Chairs Playing Tetris (Malware) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWe use these (not affiliated other than just being a customer): https://www.netscout.com/product/arbor-threat-mitigation-sys... But any DDoS mitigation appliance should be similar. Layer 7 is difficult because it's expensive to do on a scrubbing device, but also because a sufficiently sophisticated DDoS can look like normal traffic. Cloudflare can stop HTTP layer 7 stuff, but things like DNS protocol? You can't easi…
Comment linking /product/arbor-threat-mitigation-system
on “Ask HN: How to cope with DDoS attacks today?”Submitted NETSCOUT's 14th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLarger ISPs have systems like the ones Netscout[1] and others offer on their edge connections which can classify such traffic and deal with it. If your systems are co-located in a DC or you have your own DC you have access to these ISPs. [1] https://www.netscout.com/product/netscout-aed
Comment linking /product/netscout-aed
on “Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer”Not sure how accurate this is, but currently shows 150+ DDoS attacks going on globally: https://www.netscout.com/ddos-attack-map
Comment linking /ddos-attack-map
on “The State of HTTP in 2022”
