How to protect your site from DDoS attacks - before it's too late

On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this?

While the pro-Palestinian hacking collective known as Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility on Telegram for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against X, we can't be sure they're responsible. 

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CloudFlare, an internet security company specializing in blocking DDoS attacks, notes that "Spoofing source IP addresses is not technically challenging. Every machine connected to the internet can transmit any bytes of their choosing -- including setting arbitrary values in the source IP address field." In fact, spoofing source IP addresses is one way of carrying out a DDoS attack.

How was the attack done?

Regardless of who ...