https://thehackernews.com/2018/03/memcached-ddos-exploit-code.html

Basically what they are saying here is that its not going to take much for simple hacker to perform a massive DDoS attack using UDP reflections pretty easily. Not only did I find this interesting but I did some research its actually somewhat common this occurs just not on a level of 17,000 servers being exposed. I also had to do some research because I had no idea what DDoS meant. For anyone thats like me and inst sure either here is the definition for it! DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service. DDoS is a type of DOS attack where multiple compromised systems, which are often infected with a Trojan,

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According to Cisco, there are 3 types of Distributed Denial of Service attacks:
1) Volume based
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets flood random ports on a server or
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) [ping] packets to consume all of the connection’s bandwidth
2) Application attacks
HTTP Flood – botnets inundate servers with standard Get and Post requests
Slowloris – Parts of requests are sent to servers at specific time periods that slow a processing
server down
3) Protocol Attacks
SYN flood – Attackers send numerous TCP synchronization (SYN) packets to a server but do not respond
to the corresponding acknowledge (ACK) packets
Ping of Death – Attackers send oversized or fragmented ping packets that the responding device can
not properly handle

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