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DDoS reflection attacks are back - and this time, it's personal

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CSO; By Maria Korolov
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At the start of 2014, attackers' favorite distributed denial of service attack strategy was to send messages to misconfigured servers with a spoofed return address - the servers would keep trying to reply to those messages, allowing the attackers to magnify the impact of their traffic.

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