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[ PRIVACY Forum ] How Anonymous plans to use DNS as a weapon
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Sun Mar 11 23:36:11 2012
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How Anonymous plans to use DNS as a weapon
http://j.mp/ykMSrb (ars technica)
"The scale and stealthiness of the technique, called DNS amplification,
is its main draw for Anonymous. DNS amplification hijacks an integral
part of the Internet's global address book, turning a relatively small
stream of requests from attacking machines into a torrent of data sent
to the target machines, potentially delivering network traffic of tens
or hundreds of gigabytes per second without revealing the source of
the attack. It does so by using a vulnerability in the DNS service
that's been known since at least 2002."
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