The number of NTP servers that can be abused to amplify DDoS attacks has decreased dramatically this year, but the threat remains.
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2014
The amount of NTP (Network Time Protocol) servers that could be exploited for massive distributed denial-of-service attacks has decreased to over 17,000 in May, from a total of 432,120 available worldwide in December 2013. Vulnerable NTP servers, normally used for time synchronization, can be employed to amplify a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) because of the […]
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