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Vulnerable servers exposed, causing some easy hacking that can go bad
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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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