There are over 24 million home routers that have open DNS proxies. Because of these devices, Internet service providers (ISPs) are vulnerable to DNS amplification distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, experts warn.
Researchers from telecom analytics, security and DNS network services company Nominum have found that over 5.3 million of these vulnerable routers have been used to generate attack traffic in February 2014. In one attack that took place in January 2014, over 70% of a …
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