Just saw this story in the news. In response to President Trump’s killing of the Iranian military leader, Iran attacked the website of the Federal Depository Library Program today. So, I looked up the site (never heard of it before), found it on Google, clicked into it and found the Cloudflare err…

According to the linked article, this page was defaced, not DDoS’ed. This could have been done with several methods. I’d shutdown my webserver too after such an attack (which will cause a 521) and keep it offline to take a snapshot / backup for forensics destroy the machine / OS and install it fro…

Cloudflare Fails to Block Iranian Attack

Website, Application, Performance Security

cloonan January 6, 2020, 12:45am 4

Lots of issues cause a 521 error, Community Tip - Fixing Error 521: Web server is down, I don’t know why the origin server is not responding.

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Cloudflare Fails to Block Iranian Attack

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