Cloudflare claims it has mitigated the biggest cyber attack of its kind

Sooraj Shah
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But latest attack not considered big enough to break the internet

Cloud services firm Cloudflare has claimed it has recorded and mitigated the biggest ever cyber attack. The cyber attack exploited the Network Time Protocol (NTP), a system for clock synchronisa...

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