LXer: DDoS reflection attacks are back - and this time, it's personal

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LXer: DDoS reflection attacks are back - and this time, it's personal

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05-20-2015, 02:30 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,527 Rep:	LXer: DDoS reflection attacks are back - and this time, it's personal Published at LXer: At the start of 2014, attackers' favorite distributed denial of service attack strategy was to send messages to misconfigured servers with a spoofed return address - the servers would keep trying to reply to those messages, allowing the attackers to magnify the impact of their traffic. Read More...

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