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Using BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to Launch Distributed Reflective DoS Attacks (Threatpost)
2015-08-17 17:42

Researchers warn several BitTorrent protocols can be leveraged to carry out distributed reflective denial of service (DRoS) attacks.

AT&T Facilitated NSA Surveillance Efforts, Reports (Threatpost)
2015-08-17 16:30

Published reports say that AT&T was the National Security Agency's primary telecommunications partner and facilitated much of its surveillance efforts around telephone and Internet traffic collection.