August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem

The Cutting Room Floor (TCRF) experienced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on August 27. The attack was aimed at taking down the website, but it was successfully mitigated. The attackers used the Layer 3 and Layer 4 attack vectors. The TCRF website was not directly impacted by the attack, but its CDN was affected, causing users to be redirected to a backup server. The attack was detected and mitigated within 30 minutes. The TCRF team reported that the attack was a 'nuisance', and they were able to recover quickly.