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BitTorrent clients can be made to participate in high-volume DoS attacks (Help Net Security)

2015-08-17 10:22

A group of researchers have discovered a new type of DoS attack that can be pulled off by a single attacker exploiting weaknesses in the BitTorrent protocol family. The weaknesses in the Micro Tran...

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