Security News > 2015 > August > BitTorrent Patch Throttles Reflective DDoS Attacks (Threatpost)
2015-08-27 20:21
BitTorrent today announced that a patch has been rolled out in the libuTP protocol used by many of its clients, fixing a vulnerability that allows attackers to carry out distributed reflective denial of service attacks.
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http://threatpost.com/bittorrent-patch-throttles-reflective-ddos-attacks/114446
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