Security News

BitTorrent protocol family vulnerable to DRDoS attacks (SC Magazine)
2015-08-18 16:23

P2P File-Sharing in Hell: Exploiting BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to Launch Distributed Reflective DoS Attacks USENIX (Reddit)
2015-08-18 15:23

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.

BitTorrent exploits allow lone hackers to launch large DDoS attacks (ZDNet)
2015-08-17 13:08

BitTorrent Flaws Can Be Exploited for DRDoS Attacks: Researchers (SecurityWeek)
2015-08-17 13:08

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...

How BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites (ArsTechnica)
2015-08-16 18:23

Strike the source: RIAA targets BitTorrent protocol to block pirate content (ZDNet)
2015-08-05 13:27

Blog post: How to detect Popcorn Time activity on your network. The Popcorn Time application uses the Bittorrent protocol to sequentially download torrent pieces. You may be able to spot it using Wireshark or some other Bittorrent decoder. (Reddit)
2015-05-26 15:11

BitTorrent releases free P2P private voice and text app (Help Net Security)
2015-05-13 13:53

After an initial pre-alpha release in July 2014, BitTorrent's peer-to-peer private voice and text app Bleep is finally available for curious Windows, Mac, iOS and Android users to test it out. The ...