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Hackers seed Amazon cloud with potent denial-of-service bots

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ars technica; By Dan Goodin 		Mail this story
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Attackers have figured out a new way to get Amazon's cloud service to wage potent denial-of-service attacks on third-party websites—by exploiting security vulnerabilities in an open source search and analytics application known as Elasticsearch.

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