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Aug 19, 2024

CVE-2024–45163: Remote DoS Exploit in Mirai Botnet

Discovered by Jacob Masse (me).

CVE-2024–45163: Remote DoS Exploit in Mirai Botnet

Jacob Masse

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Jun 24

I Got Tired of Running tcpdump During Incidents, So I Built a 5MB Binary That Replaced 3 Tools

It’s 2 AM. PagerDuty fires. Your server’s getting hammered. You SSH in and do what every network engineer has done since the dawn of time.

I Got Tired of Running tcpdump During Incidents, So I Built a 5MB Binary That Replaced 3 Tools

Jacob Masse

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Apr 24

240 People Were in a Live Event When a 48 Gbps DDoS Attack Hit. Here’s What Happened Next.

On March 27, 2026, one of our customers got hit with a multi-vector DDoS attack during a live cybersecurity training session. This is what…

240 People Were in a Live Event When a 48 Gbps DDoS Attack Hit. Here’s What Happened Next.

Jacob Masse

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Mar 21

Deploying Anti-DDoS Agent on the ISP Level — Flowtriq

ISPs sit at an interesting point in the DDoS problem. Every attack hitting a downstream customer crosses the provider’s network first. The…

Deploying Anti-DDoS Agent on the ISP Level — Flowtriq

Jacob Masse

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Mar 20

DDoS Protection for Hosting Providers: What the Data Says About Who Gets Hit

Hosting and cloud providers were the second most targeted sector in 2025 according to Flowtriq’s State of DDoS 2026 report, accounting for…

DDoS Protection for Hosting Providers: What the Data Says About Who Gets Hit

Jacob Masse

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Mar 19

Take the CDDP (Certified DDoS Protection Practitioner) Exam Now!

DDoS is one of those topics that gets treated as either trivially simple or impossibly specialized depending on who you ask. In practice…

Take the CDDP (Certified DDoS Protection Practitioner) Exam Now!

Jacob Masse

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Mar 19

Why Game Servers Get DDoS’d More Than Anything Else, and What Actually Helps

Gaming has been the most attacked sector on the internet for five consecutive years. Flowtriq’s 2026 DDoS report puts gaming and gambling…

Why Game Servers Get DDoS’d More Than Anything Else, and What Actually Helps

Jacob Masse

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Mar 18

DDoS Protection as an MSP Revenue Stream (and When to White Label Instead)

Most MSPs are already fielding calls when a client’s server goes down under attack. The response is usually reactive: SSH in, run tcpdump…

DDoS Protection as an MSP Revenue Stream (and When to White Label Instead)

Jacob Masse

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Mar 17

How to Set up DDoS Detection and Auto-Mitigation on Your Own Servers Using Flowtriq

If you have ever managed a Linux server that has been hit by a DDoS attack, you know the experience well. Traffic spikes out of nowhere…

How to Set up DDoS Detection and Auto-Mitigation on Your Own Servers Using Flowtriq

Jacob Masse

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Feb 1, 2025

$20,000 in Gift Cards Leaked - IDOR

A simple IDOR exploit in a gift card issuer company leads to $20,000 of funds up for grabs.

$20,000 in Gift Cards Leaked - IDOR

Jacob Masse

Jacob Masse

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founder @ traztech - integrated partner for startups | founder @ flowtriq - ddos monitoring and mitigation SaaS - $9.99/node.

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