Using BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to Launch Distributed Reflective DoS Attacks

Researchers warn that several protocols used by the peer-to-peer file sharing service BitTorrent, including a handful of clients that run the protocol, can be leveraged to carry out distributed reflective denial of service DRDoS attacks. Distributed reflective denial of service, or DRDoS attacks,...

CVE-1999-1379

CVE-1999-1379 concerns DNS reflection via UDP queries where an attacker spoofs the source address to use DNS name servers as traffic amplifiers, causing amplified traffic toward the victim. The description in the connected records confirms that open resolvers can be abused to generate more traffi...